From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Sat Feb 20 1999 - 16:48:50 MST
At 06:00 PM 2/16/99 -0800, Michael M. Butler wrote:
>
>> IAN: Mike, what I said is what I quoted from
>> a physics book, how could that be my discovery?
>> Every basic physics book covers the same fact.
>
>Permit me to inject a few points before departing this conversation:
>
>1) Every basic physics book oversimplifies. That's why they call it "basic"
>physics.
>
>2) The independence of horizontal and vertical motion is only true in
>airless environments.
>Furthermore, the notion of "horizontal" is a local one, as is "vertical".
IAN: Michael, can you point me to a physics
book that explains how the atmosphere can
enable an object to fall faster than the
same object dropped in a vacuum? If not,
then what's your point?
My main point is that an initial horizontal
velocity will not allow an object to fall
faster than the fall rate in a vacuum. A
few simple thought experiments confirm that.
Since you appear to offer counter-points
to my analysis, I'd like to understand why
you felt my main point needed correction,
or were you simply addressing a tangential?
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