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From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Why do the planets continue to revolve?
Date: 26 Dec 1996 18:37:24 GMT
In article <32C0D412.7F9A@acs.tamu.edu>
Eric Kline writes:
> Nancy wrote:
>> The incremental effect of a drag is such that it is at
first
>> slight, countered by the speed of the motion, and then
>> increases rapidly as the motion slows down.
>
> Absolutely wrong. Drag, as it applies to aircraft and
reentry
> vehicles is a function of density and velocity. .. For a
given
> density, drag increases as velocity increases and decreases
as
> velocity decreases.
> eric kline <emk9267@acs.tamu.edu>
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Dolt! You can't even put the factors in a SINGLE SENTENCE
together and address them all at once. We said the INCREMENTAL
EFFECT.
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