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The problem with Newton's formulation is not that it is too brief, but rather the opposite: He should have skipped the initial prose...

... rather vague. So I addressed a specific point of yours: I gave you examples on how this approach fails and leads to wrong...

And where did that deep but wrong intuition come from? The stated reason given for the disbelief was usually based on cause-effect...

I've taken the liberty of clarifying your assertion. Yes, I agree that an expansion tank would work for that.

As drawn, the pressure inside the system is indeterminate. You have a fixed amount of fluid in a container with a fixed volume. No...

There is an interpretation that the net of all internal forces in a system is zero. It follows that internal forces alone cannot produce...

Amelie Emmy Noether.

The chosen terms were in Latin. I believe that they were written for the capable learned men of the time: I find the explanation in...

That was what attracted me to the thread because contributors seemed to assume that considering cause and effect would have to be a...

As I recall, your argument in this thread started out as an idea about pedagogy. That it was more helpful to accept student intuitions...

The non slippery condition would dictate the path along which the cone rolls. It would also assure us that the motion along that path is...

The conversation got more and more generalized as we ostensibly got to the crux of the phenomenon. There was much discussion about power...

One does not tell the student that cause and effect do not exist. One tells the student that there is no causal relationship in the...

Nobody is doing that. You can have thoughts about elves and unicorns when applying Newton's 3rd Law, if you like. But physics teaching...