In answer to your question, yes, Newton's three laws are extremely poorly
understood by many in the medical fields... They take a couple of physics
classes so they can do well on their MCATs and promptly forget
it...
NK
When are people going to appreciate that one
does NOT have to lift heavy
weights to impose large stresses on the human body and that basic
physics
shows that large forces (involving small loads but large accelerations)
and
large torques (involving small loads, but long lever arms) can be
produced
without adding any load whatsoever to the body? Are Newton's Second
Law and
the Law of Levers really so little understood by the sporting, teaching
and
medical professions? If so, there is something very amiss with
our
edunational system in general.
Once upon a time a well-known scientist said that no person could presume
to
call himself educated if he did not understand the implications of the
Second
Law of Thermodynamics - well, I am going to take that even further and
state
that no modern person can afford to call himself/herself educated if
he/she
does not understand the implications of Newton's even simpler three laws
of
mechanics. Thus did not Zarathustra spake!
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
