[lbo-talk] Fwd: Happy Newton's Day

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Mon Dec 25 14:39:12 PST 2006


On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:18:51 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: jkschw1 at yahoo.com
> > Date: December 25, 2006 9:23:35 AM EST
> > To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > Subject: Happy Newton's Day
> > Reply-To: jkschw1 at yahoo.com
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> > Please post to lbo, thanks.
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> > Keep your feet on the shoulders of giants:
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> > F = (g)m1m2/d2
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> > Sorry I can't get the super- and subscripts. . . .

I think the accepted way of rendering Newton's Law of Graviation in Ascii on the Internet would be something like this:

F = G m1 m2 / r^2

Sometimes people will write:

F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2

I am not sure how one would render Einstein's Law of Gravitation with its tensor notation, though.


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> > Happy Newton's Day, comrades!
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> > jks
> > Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.
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