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celine@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (celine@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 27 10:10:20 1989

"So the sun is going around the earth...
uh actually, I guess we dealt with that issue a long time ago.
So the earth is going around the sun..."

(Writes an equation up on the board)
This is the velocity...
(Student comment)
Well, no, I guess this is the energy.
But if you take the square root of it, it's the velocity.


Yeah, sure, right.  And if we square it does it become
the burn time?  How about some unit checking here?

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