#120101 - 01/14/08 08:47 PM
Re: Metric Usage
[Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
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length meter = m mass kilogram = kg time second = s electric current ampere = A thermodynamic temperature = Kelvin K amount of substance mole = mol luminous intensity candela = cd Now take a look at energy, force, and pressure. English units are quoted in obvious units, (psi or psf). Metric pressure is in quoted in Pa, kPa, newtons/sq m, newtons/sq.....)
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#120102 - 01/14/08 08:54 PM
Re: Metric Usage
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You mean to tell me that a newton is not a cookie filled with jam?
I recall newtons and many of the other units from taking physics years ago. But If you want me to describe a force exerted in terms of Newtons, or understand such a description, without doing some math I simply cannot. If you tell me foot-pounds, however, I will get the idea.
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#120138 - 01/14/08 11:16 PM
Re: Metric Usage
[Re: Eugene]
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Still, the metric system makes more sense.
I always thought so too until I learned binary. Great Googlie Mooglie. I'm still getting used to metric and you want me to convert to binary!?!? I'm old and tired but willing enough to keep working on thinking in metric but there are limits to what I can wrap my ossified brain around and get comfortably and casual with. I learned some of the basics of working with binary but it was like typing with my nose. I can do it but not easily or quickly.
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#120151 - 01/15/08 12:22 AM
Re: Metric Usage
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But If you want me to describe a force exerted in terms of Newtons, or understand such a description, without doing some math I simply cannot. If you tell me foot-pounds, however, I will get the idea. My point exactly. The authors of text books & professors swap them around by course. One uses kPa where the next may use Newtons/sq. meter.
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#120180 - 01/15/08 02:57 AM
Re: Metric Usage
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I'm gettin' a headache again...
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#120280 - 01/15/08 08:36 PM
Re: Metric Usage
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3.79 liters of milk 1 gallon of milk Jug of milk.
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#120296 - 01/15/08 10:29 PM
Re: Metric Usage
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"...Jug of milk..."
Big jug and little jug, that is all we need...
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#120301 - 01/15/08 10:46 PM
Re: Metric Usage
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With all the empirically derived functions, ratios don't bother me. Its when they use four different names for the same quality.
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#120315 - 01/16/08 12:44 AM
Re: Metric Usage
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I learned metric in school too, while overseas. But I have mixed feelings about metric. 12 inches to a foot is easily divided by 3, 4 and 6. 1 pint of water=1 pound, so 1 gallon=8pounds. I find it to be a much more "ergonomic" measurement system. For building things, I really like Imperial measurements.
But through chemistry and engineering classes I've also learned to appreciate metric measurements. Except for things like stress and pressure, I don't really think either system is more or less confusing.
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