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CAPT. HARDCASTLE's authentic quotations from Aristotle are most interesting. May I as a teacher emphasise the fact that terminal velocity is the best instance of Newton's first law of motion in actual operation—an instance strangely neglected by elementary exponents. On anything moving at constant speed in a straight line (like a passenger in a railway train) the resultant force acting must be zero, and, so far from “nertia being eliminated”from such a body, its progress is due wholly and solely to its own inertia. Non-Newtonian mechanics need not be referred to in treating so rudimentary a matter.
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LODGE, O. Aristotle's Physics. Nature 92, 606 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092606c0
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