Re: path travel distance vs start/finish distance

In sci.physics, Sam Wormley
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on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:46:05 GMT
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Mark Martin wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote:


Let's go have lunch... I'll buy.


Careful- The cost will be much higher than the price of the meal.

-Mark Martin


I'll bring my baseball bat, and all of Newton's classical mechanics.


Why am I getting this picture of Babe Ruth (or Barry Bonds or
Willie Mays or ...) trying to hit a very lrage book titled
"Principia Mathematica"? :-)

The good news for Spaceman: the error in analyzing the motion
of a 90 mph fastball is on the order of 1.8 * 10^-14. This is
a little more than the distance between two atoms in a C-C
bond (142 pm) every 10 km.

The bad news: there are things that move faster than pitched baseballs.
Much faster.

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