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Re: [Phys-l] Gravity

The student seems to have a concept in mind and doesn't know how to express it in terms that the rest of us understand. I've seen similar failures of ability to use language in postings on this net.
Regards,
Jack

"Trust me. I have a lot of experience at this."
General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley




On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

The list has been dead for the past couple of days (perhaps I've been banned?).

Anyway - thought I would share a quiz answer from one of my students:

The gravitational field is proportional to the mass and unproportional to the distance between the planets.

Bob at PC
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