willard

Thanks for setting the record straight on this. Now maybe everyone will STFU and rumor about something else. Congratulations on your citizenship, your marriage, and especially your new baby.

This is just as sick. I'm trying to keep in mind that they had not guilty pleas entered and that they have not yet been tried. In Mansfield, Ohio, Scott Ritchie, 26, is being accused of killing his four-month-old niece January 22 because she would not stop crying. Mansfield police say the baby's parents, along with two other people, just watched and did nothing during the course of the murder. http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007702030303

2nd guy: "But you can't outrun this rifle!"

I don't understand why lingering pain is required. The person is a cancer to society. A doctor doesn't torture cancer. A doctor removes cancer and disposes of it. Ok, we'll turn him over to a doctor. Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He'll know what to do with the scum.

Same can be said of you, Kallend. Unlike you I admit when I've made a mistake. Unlike you I don't see someone's typo and ride them constantly about it and keep bringing it up even after it has been corrected. Unlike you I don't claim to know more than all of the scientific community combined. But most importantly, unlike you I realize there is more to learn in this world than any one person could come close to learning. When you're through learning, you're through.

If you have questions, ask him. I'm sure he would rather have you ask then assume. Get to know him. I'll bet you will find more in common than you think. My grandfather was born in Hungary, moved to what is now The Czech Republic where he served in the army, left when Hitler was rising to power and moved to Canada, then finally to the States. He had to endure rumors about his past, all untrue, and made a good productive life for him and his family.

Too quick for the bastard. He should be chained to a steel post outside in 2 degree weather and smacked in the head with a 2x4 then left to freeze to death. Same as he did the little girl. Make sure he is gagged. People shouldn't have to listen to him whine and bitch about how cold it is.

It's easy. All we have to do is stop burning fossil fuels. Problem is, nobody wants to.

What is "mass time"? IS it a new physical quantity you have just invented? I have actually read Newton's Principia, have you? I know what he ACTUALLY wrote in his book, do you? Newton's 2nd law (translated from Latin) is: The rate of change of momentum of a body is proportional to the resultant force acting on the body and is in the same direction. Do you see the words "mass" and "acceleration" in there? It's about MOMENTUM (given the symbol p in physics). Rate of change of momentum is dp/dt The 2nd law says dp/dt = C*f, where C is a constant. You are out of your depth. mass time * was a typo. should read mass*accel. Am I supposed to be impressed? Do you expect people to bow to you because you read it. Reading something does not necessarily translate to understanding. It works both ways in our little exchange going on here. F=ma is perfectly acceptable when mass is held constant. If it's good enough for NASA, it's good enough for me. Just because you feel it's not the form you prefer to use doesn't make it wrong. Unless you are now claiming to not only be smarter than Isaac Newton, but smarter than all of NASA combined as well? Get off your perch, Kallend. Arrogance doesn't become you.

You are killing me, stop please. Force uses units of Newtons guess again. Wikipedia has a nice explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation Try again. "The attractive force exerted by the Earth on an object is called the gravitational force. This force is directed toward the center of the earth , and it's magnitude is called the weight of an object." Quoted directly from a text book. Newtons are used in the SI system. 1 Newton =1 kilogram*9.8 m/sec^2 U.S.Customary uses slug*32.2ft/sec^2=pounds Tell us, willard, does a mass of one slug weigh the same on the Moon? on Mars? Only in your little mind, Kallend. Remember you said "Always has, always will" At sea level on earth, Kallend, at sea level on earth.

And I admitted as much. Crow tastes nasty. Kallend, I am surprised. You are saying Newton's Second Law is wrong? Several hundred years of scrutiny have proven that F=ma is fact. . OK, let's dissect your statements. 1. Newton's 2nd law is NOT f=ma. f=ma fails under many conditions (relativistic velocities, quantum mechanical conditions). Newton's 2nd law is f=dp/dt, a statement of conservation of momentum. You were wrong. 2. Let's test your "Always has, always will" statement using the definition of slugs as mass m and pounds as force f: You wrote: "slugs*32.2=pounds. Always has, always will." (Post #40 of this thread and subsequently claimed it was the same as F=ma So let's see: A mass of m = 1.0 slug is acted upon by a force F and accelerates at a rate of a=1.0ft.sec^-2. What was the force F? According to "Always has, always will" willard's equation, the force is 1.0 x 32.2 = 32.2 pounds force. According to F = ma, F = 1.0 x 1.0 = 1.0 pound force. Seems to be a big difference here, willard. You were wrong. Your first post was wrong, and most of your subsequent posts were wrong. You think that learning an equation or two is the same as learning physics - a very common error among freshmen. Sorry Kallend, but Newtons Second Law is most certainly Force =mass time * acceleration. Look it up. I am by no means under the impression that I know all there is to know about physics. If you would open your eyes and actually read the posts you will see that 1 slug times 32.2 (the force of gravity) = pounds(weight) As you know there are more than one version of the law, depending upon application. This may help. http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/newton2.html Changing what I wrote so it fits what you want it to fit doesn't prove anything. If this thread has accomplished anything, it has shown that I can admitt a mistake and you can't. But then, maybe you have found a way to prove Newton wrong. But I doubt it. Go ahead and flail away at me, I am done here.

You've got to be kidding! Who's paying whom? And why? There are profs who merely show up for lecture, give the same speach they have for the last twenty years, and then go back to their desk without ever getting to know any of their students. Then there are the ones who have extended office hours. Who stay well after class to answer any questions the students have without tossing them off onto a TA. Who make an effort to get to know at least some of their students and to learn something from them. The best prof I have had yet did exctly that and proudly proclaimed that he learns something from every student he has. What a teacher learns from the student is rarely anything to do with the subject being taught in the classroom.

Most ironic post ever. This from the man who didn't know what G was a few posts ago (yes it's just G). Your command of the English language isn't much better. In the context in which it was used as an abbreviation for the phrase gravitational constant, GC is quite correct. If it were to be used in an equation, then it would be incorrect.

You are killing me, stop please. Force uses units of Newtons guess again. Wikipedia has a nice explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation Try again. "The attractive force exerted by the Earth on an object is called the gravitational force. This force is directed toward the center of the earth , and it's magnitude is called the weight of an object." Quoted directly from a text book. Newtons are used in the SI system. 1 Newton =1 kilogram*9.8 m/sec^2 U.S.Customary uses slug*32.2ft/sec^2=pounds

Really bad one here.... Q: What do Polar Bears eat for dessert? A: Eskimo Pies I warned ye

Had a dog do the same thing. It was a bladder infection.

I would guess Debra Dickerson is more of a racist than most people I know. That's one book I will not be reading, much less buy.

I'm not a professor, so I figured I was safe. Some people say they don't like internet message boards as a form of communication because meaning and emotion embedded in tone is lost, but I'd have to disagree. Furthermore, if you really believe in your signature line, you'd mind your tone. You got your hands on a physics factoid regarding mass vs weight, and decided to share it on an internet message board, a place well known for its rampant infestation of smart-asses. You were then out-smart-assed by a physics professor, and things went down hill from there. At this point, trying to salvage any nobility from the matter is probably a lost cause. If I were you, and I could manage to garner kallend's support in just one goal, I would have it be, "letting this thread die." Excellent point. However, I really don't care what Kallend thinks. His opinion matters not to me. Heck, he probably won't even admit to the typo in his GC. He'll probably blame that on me as well. This thread will breath no more because of me.

You are truly out of your depth discussing physics. I hope you never have to pass a quantum mechanics class with your concept of dimensional consistency. Several people have now pointed out the exact same thing to you, but you keep digging and digging. PS the gravitational constant is 6.67300 × 10-11 m^3 kg^-1 s^-2. Sorry to burst your bubble again. Reference here since you clearly won't believe me otherwise. Fixed it. I should have said "force" not "constant". Your common sense score just went up. It is now at 1.5/10 Try this one. G=6.673*10^-11 N*m^2/kg^2 10^-11 works much better than 10-11 chirp chirp chirp

Wasn't refering to you, sorry if you thought I was. Any goal has long since vanished. This thread has degenerated into basically nothing. I made a mistake and admitted it. Several times. Kallend didn't use common sense, didn't bother to confirm the meaning of an equation that was obvious, and chose to insult me because of a mistake he made and won't admit. I once pointed out an error to a chem prof. He was using a faulty method for a temp conversion. When I pointed this out to him after class he didn't insult me and tell me I didn't know what I was talking about. He had me go back to his office where he asked me to show him what I thought he was doing wrong. We then ran through several problems to confirm what I found. He never once acted in a manner other than courteous and grateful. He then went back over the last midterm and quiz, regraded them , and changed everyones grade if it was warranted. The Profs who are the most successful are, interestingly, the ones who learn as much from their students as the students do from them. Some just think too much of themselves to think they could learn from a lowly student.

The point was not true, pound IS a unit of mass, AND wiki mentions the vernacular use all over the place, so the revisionism is particularly lame. I thought his point was that Wikipedia was not an accepted reference (which is true) and he was trying to support it by pointing out that someone had carelessly listed pounds among units of mass, when it fact it is only sometimes a unit of mass (which is a lame nit-picking example.) Now I'm a bit befuddled, however, as to what his point is. It's not clear now if it ever was. That is exactly what the point of my original post was. But a certain professor, who wouldn't use a roll of toilet paper unless it was specifically marked as such, was confused by a simple equation.

Evidently you're not smart enough to figure out something that simple. Stll true. Equation in the form of Newtons 2nd law....we are discussing weight vs. mass......a mass unit is given....a unit is given that could be either weight or mass depending on the situation......and a figure that is obvious to any freshman engineering or physics student as the gravitational constant force.....and you thought it was a mass-mass conversion?? Common sense score....1/10 I think you're the one who is confused. chirp chirp chirp

I had been refering to the pound as WEIGHT. Why the fuck would I change it to mass in the middle of an equation? Evidently you're not smart enough to figure out something that simple.

I think it's what Jeff Foxworthy and Robin Williams refer to as "anal seapage". Leakage...seapage....don't sound good either way. Especially if she's wearing white shorts.