Re: Physics without energy

From: Eric Gisse (fsegg_at_!SPAMuaf.edu)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:21:02 -0800

On 3 Sep 2004 13:27:48 -0700, mobydikc@gmail.com (Mike Helland) wrote:

>This is bound to draw alot of irrate responses, I'm sure. Probably one
>word replies, demonstrating only how difficult it is to get someone to
>think in a new way.

[snip]

In order to get me to think in a new way, you are going to have to
justify it. You are yet to justify it, other than essentially
chastising people for not thinking in new ways and being
closed-minded.

How about this - work me a problem that uses conservation of momentum
but instead, uses whatever your new concept of thinking happens to be
this week. For example, inelastic collisions of two hockey pucks on a
frictionless plane.

Do it with math and not dialectic. If you want me to start thinking in
new ways, you had better start soon because my appreciation for
Newton's laws of motion and conservation of energy is about to be
hammered in place by my 311 level mechanics class

My thinking is not yet set in stone. All you have to do to change that
is show me another powerful way of thinking. I get through my math
classes by appreciating there is more than one way of doing things.

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