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To: gorush

Physicists usually ignore friction and drag when coming up with such hypotheticals. This problem is a matter of simple harmonic oscillation. As a pendulum has zero acceleration at its lowest point, the same applies to any object at the earth’s center.


38 posted on 04/19/2014 9:20:08 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Hoodat

I concur.


41 posted on 04/19/2014 9:22:02 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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