Jon S Berndt wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:25:47 +0100 > Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Christian Mayer wrote: >> >>> Jon S Berndt wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> That's correct. >> >> >> Are you sure, for what I know mass is in Newton/m2 and weight is in kg? > > > See? kilograms are a MASS unit - though it is incorrectly used for > weight (IMHO). N/m2 is pressure - not mass.
My bad it's not N/m2 but just Newton. I remembered we used newton for mass instead of kg. I guess it's just used for confinience but representing not *the* standard. Erik _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
