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I find Newtons to be less confusing than poundals, slugs, poundmass and poundforce.Originally Posted by Curt Harms
Any relation to Fig?That's the only Newton most Yanks are going to be familiar with. I get along reasonably well with many metric measures but Newton just doesn't compute for me. Aircraft engine output is often expressed as pounds of thrust or KiloNewtons. There are of course online converters but that's one unit of measure I have trouble getting my head around.
Beranek's Law:
It has been remarked that if one selects his own components, builds his own enclosure, and is convinced he has made a wise choice of design, then his own loudspeaker sounds better to him than does anyone else's loudspeaker. In this case, the frequency response of the loudspeaker seems to play only a minor part in forming a person's opinion.
L.L. Beranek, Acoustics (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954), p.208.
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It's funny, though. Every doctor I know has an intuitive feel for metric weights in kg. But list a height in cm, and we all reach for our calculators to see how tall that is.
I always spoke to one of our English surgeons about how many stones the patient weighed. He always got a chuckle out of that.
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Whats the question? Did the first post get deleted?
A kilopascal is 1000 regular pascals.
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Last edited by Bill Dufour; 10-16-2021 at 7:31 PM.
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Kilopascal is a unit of measure designed solely to scare you into thinking your tires are going flat.
This happens when the digital gauge which normally displays "32.0 PSI" starts displaying "220 KPa". In both cases, the unit and the decimal point are far too small to see in a dimly-lit garage. By the time you figure out what's going on, you've turned on the compressor, pulled out the hose, and pumped up the tire to 46PSI or so. DAMHIKT.
The gauge in question now has a double layer of duct tape over the button that changes units.
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"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
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That's a really funny story. I'll watch out for that.
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Exactly, I’m always lost with the imperial system.
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Hi Rod
The only place poundals, slugs, pound force and pound mass are to be found is in textbooks. They are arcane. PSI is found and understood everywhere in north america. Newtons, not so much.
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To me psf is more intuitive than psi.
Beranek's Law:
It has been remarked that if one selects his own components, builds his own enclosure, and is convinced he has made a wise choice of design, then his own loudspeaker sounds better to him than does anyone else's loudspeaker. In this case, the frequency response of the loudspeaker seems to play only a minor part in forming a person's opinion.
L.L. Beranek, Acoustics (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954), p.208.
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