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Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground?

From Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground?
Date 2022-12-22 09:44 +0100
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On 2022-12-21 20:22:01 +0000, Volney said:

> On 12/21/2022 12:32 AM, whodat wrote:
>> On 12/20/2022 11:09 PM, Volney wrote:
>>> On 12/20/2022 2:01 PM, mitchr...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 10:43:38 AM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> You need to understand the textbook defintion of the
>>>>> word..."accelerate". Coming to a stop is...accelerating.
>>>> 
>>>> No. That is slowing down. There is both acceleration and deceleration.
>>>> And there is still forward motion...
>>> 
>>> Roy, he said the textbook definition of accelerate. Roy, deceleration 
>>> is nothing more than a negative acceleration.

My impression is that "deceleration" is a layman's word, useful enough 
to describe the effect of braking on the movement of a car, but not 
much in serious writing about physics or mechanics. Acceleration is a 
vector, and doesn't just apply to forward motion, or even to forward 
and backward motion, but to acceleration to the left or right, or up or 
down, or any combination of these.

>  See, Roy? That's another use for negative numbers, which you don't understand!
>> 
>> I hate to have to point this out, but since acceleration is any change
>> in speed or direction there is no such a thing has "negative
>> acceleration." That expression is an impossibility as a science
>> based word. The concept of slowing down exists of course, but the
>> nomenclature is limited by the broad definition of the word accelerate.
>> 
>> What frosts me even more is that I have to acknowledge that our resident
>> troll is correct.
>> 
> 
> In ordinary mechanics (physics) there is no deceleration, acceleration 
> is a vector which can add to or subtract from the velocity vector [over 
> time] or act at an angle such as an orbiting planet. Its components can 
> be positive or negative. In one dimension it can be represented as a 
> positive or negative number along the x axis.
> 
> An exception is friction, which always opposes the velocity relative to 
> whatever it has frictional contact with. This opposition to the motion 
> is seen as deceleration. Slide an object across the floor and it slows 
> and stops on the floor or "decelerates". When it stops there is no 
> longer any deceleration (or acceleration for that matter), the 
> acceleration is 0.


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 36+ years; mainly 
in England until 1987.

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What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2022-12-16 22:29 -0800
  Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2022-12-17 09:31 -0800
    Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2022-12-17 10:26 -0800
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    Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2022-12-17 11:20 -0800
      Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2022-12-17 22:31 +0100
        Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2022-12-17 13:40 -0800
          Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2022-12-17 16:02 -0800
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                Re: Cretin Pat Dolan demonstrates once again that his ibecility extends to basic mathematics patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2022-12-17 17:51 -0800
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                Re: Cretin Pat Dolan demonstrates once again that his ibecility   extends to basic mathematics Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2022-12-18 09:45 +0100
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            Re: What is the force that the Earth used to keep us on the ground? patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2022-12-18 10:23 -0800
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