Subject: Re: [baidarka] Lift and Drag
From: William Nettles (netttles@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 15:08:57 EDT
> From: "Alexander Leon" <asleon@comcast.net>
> I hate to step on your explanation of drag,
AND
> Unless we agree on what terms mean, we'll be arguing until the cows come
> home.
>
> Bill Samson
mea culpa. I guess if I wanted to jump into the fracas, I should have simply
walked over to the shelf, pulled down a physics book and copied out the
definitions. Until we can agree on a set of terms for such an important
discussion, we'll never get anywhere.
Better than taking the Aristotilian approach, what kind of experiment could
be (or has been) designed around paddles?
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