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41. curvature of buckets of water (score: 38)
Author: Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:39:55 -0700
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Leigh Palmer wrote: Yes. The figure of the surface of an off-center bucket is simply an off-axis paraboloid of revolution, a somewhat uncommonly employed optical element. The segm
/archives/1999/07_1999/msg00103.html (6,244 bytes)

42. [SPAM] Re: Physics, Errors and Different Teaching Styles (score: 32)
Author: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:30:24 -0700
On 06/29/2012 09:35 AM, Hugh Haskell wrote: I wasn't talking about rotation *of* the earth, but rotation of the earth *about* the sun, as I thought my wording should have made obvious. Wow, that was
/archives/2012/6_2012/msg00258.html (9,136 bytes)

43. Galileo was wrong (score: 32)
Author: Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:52:32 -0400
The problem for Galileo is that he had good arguments against the Aristotlean geocentric model that was supported by the church, but he did not have evidence that in fact the earth went around the su
/archives/2010/9_2010/msg00240.html (11,975 bytes)

44. Galileo was wrong (score: 32)
Author: "LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:22:31 -0400
Wouldn't the Foucault pendulum work just as well if the earth were stationary and the rest of the universe revolved around it? Bob at PC --Original Message-- From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffa
/archives/2010/9_2010/msg00248.html (12,833 bytes)

45. Galileo was wrong (score: 32)
Author: curtis osterhoudt <flutzpah@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:24:51 -0700 (PDT)
At what rate? /** "The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of t
/archives/2010/9_2010/msg00249.html (13,946 bytes)

46. Galileo was wrong (score: 32)
Author: Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:17:13 -0400
Same rate as the stars. Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Physics Co-Director Northern Indiana Math Science and Engineering Collaborative 574-276-8294 inquirybellina@comcast.net On S
/archives/2010/9_2010/msg00256.html (14,535 bytes)

47. A rotating Earth? (score: 32)
Author: Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:38:35 -0500
We could of course raise the question asked by Mach...is the Foucault Pendulum evidence that the earth is rotating. If the stars were indeed rotating and earth not, you might expect the pendulum to b
/archives/2000/02_2000/msg00120.html (4,689 bytes)

48. Sun going around the Earth? (score: 29)
Author: Bill Nettles <bnettles@uu.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:48:34 +0000
Richard, the original actually had more than that question: " So, I was having an argument with someone about establishing that the Earth goes around the Sun, and he claimed that he could write down
/archives/2015/3_2015/msg00087.html (12,840 bytes)

49. Sun going around the Earth? (score: 29)
Author: "John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:58:05 -0500
The problems is not the scientific process. Students learn things as facts, but then they don't believe many of the facts. They need to learn that the scientific method builds up the scientific resul
/archives/2015/3_2015/msg00094.html (11,592 bytes)

50. Sun going around the Earth? (score: 29)
Author: Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:52:31 -0400
How about as the stellar sphere rotates daily around the earth the pendulum is dragged with it. I think that goes back to Mach Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2015, at 1:32 PM, "John Clement" <clement
/archives/2015/3_2015/msg00081.html (6,669 bytes)

51. Sun going around the Earth? (score: 29)
Author: Richard Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:08:14 -0400
OK..what do you do with the observed parallax shifts of nearby stars viewed 6 months apart? rwt On 3/25/2015 1:52 PM, Joseph Bellina wrote: How about as the stellar sphere rotates daily around the ea
/archives/2015/3_2015/msg00082.html (7,820 bytes)

52. Sun going around the Earth? (score: 29)
Author: Derek Padilla <derekpadilla@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:26:23 +0000
This triggered a memory of the Griffiths quantum text's discussion of spin-orbit coupling in hydrogen with the proton orbiting the electron. (I'm sure other texts do the same.) It's essentially done
/archives/2015/3_2015/msg00083.html (11,456 bytes)

53. Sun going around the Earth? (score: 29)
Author: Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:39:21 -0400
That wasn't the question Sent from my iPhone On Mar 25, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Richard Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu> wrote: OK..what do you do with the observed parallax shifts of nearby stars viewed 6
/archives/2015/3_2015/msg00084.html (8,405 bytes)

54. Sun going around the Earth? (score: 29)
Author: Richard Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:10:31 -0400
Seems like there are a number of questions going on in this thread...one being something I know you have taught a course based on... How do we know the earth moves...or the related question...how can
/archives/2015/3_2015/msg00085.html (9,732 bytes)

55. Derive energy from angular KE of earth? (score: 29)
Author: Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:13:32 -0600
This response sounded confident, but I didn't understand some of the terms. I will interject with my difficulties of comprehension along the way. At 01:14 PM 12/24/2003, you wrote: Conservation of mo
/archives/2003/12_2003/msg00242.html (12,366 bytes)

56. Chladni's Figures (score: 29)
Author: brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:30:34 -0600
I read about Chladni's figures (1787) when I was a kid. A glass square is supported from the center on a stand, and lycopodium powder - whatever that is - is sprinkled over it, and bowed on the edge,
/archives/2001/10_2001/msg00751.html (4,501 bytes)

57. Galileo was wrong (score: 26)
Author: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:41:37 -0700
On 09/20/2010 01:52 PM, Joseph Bellina wrote: The problem for Galileo is that he had good arguments against the Aristotlean geocentric model that was supported by the church, but he did not have evid
/archives/2010/9_2010/msg00243.html (6,182 bytes)

58. Galileo was wrong (score: 26)
Author: Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:00:08 -0400
See below Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Physics Co-Director Northern Indiana Math Science and Engineering Collaborative 574-276-8294 inquirybellina@comcast.net On Sep 20, 2010, a
/archives/2010/9_2010/msg00244.html (8,731 bytes)

59. Measuring acceleration of Earth (score: 26)
Author: John Denker <jsd@AV8N.COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:56:52 -0500
Savinainen Antti wrote: how can the acceleration of Earth with respect to Sun be measured? Of course, it is quite easy to *calculate* an estimate using high school physics but I wonder what methods m
/archives/2004/11_2004/msg00008.html (6,875 bytes)

60. non-relative angular velocity (score: 26)
Author: David Bowman <David_Bowman@GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:23:51 -0500
Regarding Ludwik's question: According to David the singularity is a relativistic dilemma. Foucault was not aware of relativity. Are you addressing the same topic? John Denker wrote: ... If I may be
/archives/2000/02_2000/msg00097.html (7,335 bytes)

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