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- From: turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (George Wm Turner)
- Subject: Re: Heavy Boots
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.190810.11385@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- Reply-To: turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (George Wm Turner)
- Organization: Indiana University
- References: <1992Jul30.161658.26111@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul31.071337.14623@omen.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 19:08:10 GMT
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- >In article <1992Jul31.071337.14623@omen.UUCP>, caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
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- >Were any of your students sharp enough to choose a moon light
- >enough that one could drop the pen hard enough that its rebound
- >would exceed escape velocity? It would have been a matter of
- >honor in my 3rd semester physics recitation section at RPI.
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- on any moon it would, at best, only bounce as high as it had been dropped from.
- any friction at all would cause it to rise to a height something less than
- what it was dropped from.
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- george wm turner turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu
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