On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:13:34 -0500 "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The prof would pose a question in one system and expect the answer >in the other. That borders on torture. I wish that all engineering >classes used metric only these days. Unfortunately, I'm sure it's not >the case. Metric isn't perfect either - it's been sort of perverted by ... I don't know who. In my mind, mass is in kg. and force is in Newtons. Unfortunately, metric mass terms are used to describe how much something "weighs", i.e. a force. This leads to almost as much confusion as converting between slugs, and pounds-mass, and pounds-force. What's that about!?!? Jon _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
