On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Joseph B. Reid wrote: > ... > I prefer to express the joule as the watt second because the watt is more > familiar to the ordinary person than the newton.
Lack of familiarity with the newton and joule is a deficiency of traditional science education. joule = watt second is merely an "identity" as I have already explained. 1 joule = 1 watt second = 1 (joule/second) second = 1 joule, which goes in an endless circle and contains *nothing* about the origin (fundamental definition) of the joule as a newton meter. Gene.
