Thread: Airplane Pilot's As Physicists
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Old October 9th 07, 11:09 PM posted to sci.physics,rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]
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Default Airplane Pilot's As Physicists
Jim Stewart wrote in news:4-
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Le Chaud Lapin writes:

If you read carefully, the premise of what they are saying is that, if
you have, for example, a sealed jar with air in it, you are permitted
to consider the air on the _inside_ of the jar, pushing up on the lid
as contributing to a force to lift the jar off the ground, but you are
not allowed to consider the air on the _inside_ of the jar, pushing
down on the jar un the upper surface of the bottom of the jar.

The atmosphere is not a sealed jar. The source of air pressure in the
atmosphere is gravity, not confinement and kinetic energy.

I feel as though I am in the presence of
genius.....


Take a tums, it'll get better


Bertie