Departmental Colloquium
- Title
- Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Newton’s Second Law for Variable Mass Systems
- Guest Speaker
- Prof. Kanzo Nakayama
- Guest Affiliation
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, UGA
- When
- Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location
- Physics Auditorium (202)
- Details
- Misinterpretation of Newton’s Second Law for variable mass systems currently found in the literature is addressed. In particular, it is shown that Newton’s Second law in the form F = dp/dt is valid for variable mass systems in general, contrary to the claims by some authors that it is not.