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Re: New version of my annotations to SRT

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Am 16.02.2024 um 09:46 schrieb Athel Cornish-Bowden:
> On 2024-02-16 06:20:15 +0000, Thomas Heger said:
>
>>>
>>> [ … ]
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>>>
>>> Can you quote the sentence in question?
>>
>> sure:
>> page 22, roughly in the middle
>>
>> "We will now determine the kinetic energy of the electron. If an
>> electron moves from rest at the origin of co-ordinates of the system K
>> along the axis of X under the action of an electrostatic force X, ..."
>
> Is this your translation? Is "the axis of X" what is normally called the
> x-axis in English? Maybe you could quote it in German so that someone
> who knows more German than I do can comment. Anyway, I agree that
> calling the abscissa axis the x-axis is not ideal, but it's very
> commonly done. In that case X is not a variable.

I'm actually critizising a certain text, not the work of Einstein per se.

So, my topic is this particular English translation.

I take the text as homework of a student (in phyics in this case) and 
write annotations, like a (hypothetical) professor would do that.

This is more or less an exercise and a learning method and does not deal 
with the actual author, but with a certain text.

My aim was, to find absolutely all errors and not to make any false 
accusations.

This is quite difficult and that's why it is such a good learning method.

In this context I had critizised the prase 'axis of X', because 'X' was 
already the name of the x-axis of system K.
...

TH

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  Re: New version of my annotations to SRT Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2024-02-17 12:47 +0200
    Re: New version of my annotations to SRT Python <python@invalid.org> - 2024-02-17 14:33 +0100
      Re: New version of my annotations to SRT Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2024-02-17 16:40 +0200
        Re: New version of my annotations to SRT Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> - 2024-02-17 15:55 +0100
        Re: New version of my annotations to SRT Python <python@invalid.org> - 2024-02-17 17:16 +0100
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        Re: New version of my annotations to SRT Python <python@invalid.org> - 2024-02-17 17:15 +0100
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