Re: Engineers vs physicists and other scientists
Don1 wrote:
> The majority of people who comprehend that the force we call weight (w)
> is a fundamental variable of physics; due to, and proportional to the
> variable acceleration due to gravity at various locations are called
> engineers.
>
> Those who think the force we call weight varies due to some other
> acceleration are (often} called physicists.
>
> Don
Don1--
Keep working at it--you are improving. Not that long ago you were
convinced that a quart weighed one pound--hence the phrase "a pints a
pound the world around..." except of course in England where a pint is
not a pound--nor a pound a dollar. Gosh, maybe we need some standard
reference here. ;-)
Tut
.
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