From phma@oltronics.net Sat Jul 29 21:14:57 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19233 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2000 04:14:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Jul 2000 04:14:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Jul 2000 04:14:57 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA11714 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:14:55 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.18, neofelis, , 207.15.133.18 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 00:14:55(EDT) on July 30, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] force and pressure Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:09:57 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00073000145003.19701@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat >Width is a scalar, displacement a vector. Width is the absolute value of the displacement from one side to the other. There is no similar way to convert energy to torque, or vice versa. phma