Droolin Doolin's multiplication table
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From: Androcles on 27 Jul 2010 23:02 "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_z> wrote in message news:HVM3o.372610$Hs4.97536(a)hurricane... | | "Jonathan Doolin" <good4usoul(a)gmail.com> wrote in message | news:117decdc-5f48-43c0-8178-f24d32170d0c(a)l14g2000yql.googlegroups.com... | | There's two ways of thinking of acceleration. The standard way to | think of it is as the differential change in velocity over a | differential change in time. So you can always break down any | particular change in velocity as several smaller changes in velocity. | If for instance, somehow a particle were to accelerate by .9c in a | hundredth of a second, and then accelerate by .9c in the next | hundredth of a second, and continue doing this for a whole second, it | would seem like the acceleration must be 90 c in one second. But | you're overlooking of course, that velocity is not additive. | ============================================= Droolin Doolin's multiplication table 1 x 10 = 9.9 2 x 10 = 19.8 3 x 10 = 29.7 4 x 10 = 39.6 5 x 10 = 49.5 6 x 10 = 59.4 7 x 10 = 69.3 8 x 10 = 79.2 9 x 10 = 89.1 10 x 10 = 90 What an idiot! |