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I have read many threads similar to this one and they all go the same way and cease to be fun. It's quite depressing when someone who clearly is having a problem with a topic, tries to dictate the way the technical argument goes and insists on seeing things his way, in the face of a lot of well informed comments from people who clearly know their subject.erobz said:No...I don't understand. I don't wish to make special rules for each case. The complication seems to be there, it is not of my making.
The complication that the OP sees is totally of his own making. Instead of looking for the common message, he's desperately trying to find inconsistencies from the slight variations in wording in various sources (posters and books). He has mis-interpreted a question in Ohanian and uses that to cast doubt on the whole way a wheel acts.
He has dismissed the basic maths of the situation and come to his own (wrong) conclusions. A bit of humility for the subject could help him a lot. The basics of the theory of limits agrees with Ohanian's statement.Ebby said:I imagine the car at a time t, and then I imagine the car at a time a fraction of a second later, and this point (to me at least) seems to have moved...