Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971204102300.006a3000@mail.walltech.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 10:23:00 -0600
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
From: geoff ruth <geoffr@eastside.org>
Subject: Re: vector components
In-Reply-To: <v01540b13b0abbe8a0b00@[192.174.2.173]>
But if you're drawing a force diagram, then you would show the gravitational
force as being just down, right?
At 06:01 PM 12/3/97 -0800, you wrote:
>indeed Gravity is down.
>However, the surface of the inclined plane has a component that is down
>and a component that is horizontal.
>Thus gravity is along the down component of the plane.
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>Paul D
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