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From: Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net>
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> writes:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:48:26 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:46:09 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:20:34 -0400, Radey Shouman
>>><shouman@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:58:56 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>(...)
>>>>>>IOW if you turn an object loose with only its weight acting on its mass, 
>>>>>>it accelerates downward at one "gee."
>>>>>
>>>>> Count me unimpressed by Krygowski's cut and paste.
>>>>
>>>>I'm reasonably sure that was written extemporaneously.  Any engineering
>>>>professor should be able to do the same.  Any practicing engineer will
>>>>have gone through the same reasoning many times.
>>>
>>>I'm reasonably sure he copied out of a book.
>>
>>To impress you, must one now memorize all the proofs and calculations?
>>That seems a bit excessive.  Do you memorize everything?  I don't,
>>mostly because my memory is not as good as when I was young.
>>Secondarily, because I don't like distributing potentially wrong
>>proofs and calculations.  If you have memorized everything, I too
>>would be very impressed.
>
> I don't learn things by rote, I learn by knowing how things work.

If only you knew how force, mass, and acceleration worked you could
also write out an explanation similar to that of Prof. Krygowski.

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