From: Michael M. Butler (butlerj-nkmail@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Aug 14 1998 - 00:22:25 MDT
I have dined on fresh corvid, and believe I must report my error:
I dumbly forgot (and was kindly reminded) that *momentum* is conserved.
NOT kinetic energy. FT=MV, m1v1=m2v2 and all that.
Ooops.
SO my numbers are off by a factor of 3600, which is greater than I consider
acceptable to pass without correction. Michael Lorrey's explanation was (as
I'd hoped) closer to the point and factually correct. I plead fatigue and
oxidation (rustiness).
MMB
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