On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:31:11PM -0600, Peter Lissaman wrote: > > Thirty years of brilliant orbital mechanics in the space programs have > proven a solid validation of Newtonian Calculus. And, Yes, Virginia, there > is a Saint Isaac, and those simple laws hold here, on the moon and > everywhere else we've been able to check. So it doesn't seem to me there's > no such thing as a point with various state derivatives!!! >
I don't think it is a point that has a derivative in Newtonian mechanics, but rather the trajectory of a point particle through phase space. I haven't been following this thread closely, so I may be way off-base, of course. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
