Home Is Where The Wind Blows

An immortal fumble by Androcles (24-Dec-2004)

Newton for beginners
"fellow" <Jameson@god.com> wrote in message 
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> In $2 Of Einstein's General Relativity paper, he makes the statement 
> that the Gravitational field is remarkable because it imparts the same
> acceleration to all bodies independently of mass.


Let me remark that a greater force is applied to a larger mass, and the
larger mass has a greater inertia. Consequently the larger mass 
accelerates the same as the lesser.  This breaks down  when very
large masses are involved, however.
Consider a small mass W, the moon and the Earth.
     M ----------E-----------W
The moon is falling toward the Earth, the mass is falling toward both
moon and Earth.  From the same starting position and zero velocity,
the mass collides with the Earth before the moon.

Androcles.
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