Three decimal places on a mm dimension, or cm? 1 µm tolerance is some pretty impressive machining. (Of course, four decimal places on an inch is 2.5 µm, which is impressive enough if you ask me.)
On mm dimensions. Lots of medical, aerospace and Battlebots applications.Three decimal places on a mm dimension, or cm? 1 µm tolerance is some pretty impressive machining. (Of course, four decimal places on an inch is 2.5 µm, which is impressive enough if you ask me.)
As the punchline goes, "I had a truck like that once."In Texas we skirted the problem by measuring distance in hours
We can blame Jimmy Carter for that. Dang it.The metric conversion never happened. Fine with me.
Torque is the biggest PITA. Mostly it's in newton meters which are .74 ft lbs. But I did have one that was kg force meter. Converting that was a REAL PITA...
If, as you say, F=ma/gc then gc must be a dimensionless quantity equal to exactly one.
I've never had the pleasure of doing ideal gas calculations (or any others involving the ideal gas constant) in English units; I'm surprised to read that it makes a difference. The ideal gas law, PV=nRT, has quantities with units of pressure, volume, and temperature. R itself is typically expressed, at least in MKS, with units of energy and temperature. None of these are subjects of the mass-weight ambiguity.
Also, you should be aware that the correct abbreviation for the Newton (MKS unit of force) is "N", not "nt".
I do both, but give me metric anytime. Much less prone to error with mental arithmetic IMHO.Metric is for people who can't do fractions.
I'm imagining nozzles denominated in 1/3 mm increments and I guess I don't entirely hate it? ... although it's a lot more etching.I love that you say that in praise of the god of chaos.
I've gotten to where time-keeping and latitude/longitude have begun to bug me, too. I wish we used decimal math for those, too.
But all the rest above is normal enough for Mercans.
Not from Mercury. From Merca! Merca, F-yeah!
It was a joke ... shows that following the rules is not always right....You're just going to divide by zero like that in public?
Actually, it shows that seeming to follow rules while either not understanding them or applying them carelessly doesn't always get you the right result. Since it was a joke I assume that you did know what you were doing; I'm just saying if it's both a joke and a lesson then let's make it the right lesson.It was a joke ... shows that following the rules is not always right....
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