http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/reports/metric_units.cfm
A couple excerpts that I thought would be interesting to this our group follow:
The committee is called the SI Units and Metric Education Committee Report
There is a note concerning the importance of making a clear distinction between mass and weight.
Committee members have observed that engineers serving on other SI committees they belong to are not aware of the difference between mass and weight or are impatient with our view that mass and weight are different. We continue to believe that physicists’ views must be represented on these committees to forestall ill-considered actions.
The members of this physics teachers committee serve on metric committees established by other organizations such as AMSI, ASTM, IEEE, etc.
The committee members believe that the committee should continue to exist. The importance of our committee to AAPT comes at least partly because some of its members represent AAPT on other metric committees, as mentioned above.
The committee asked for permanent status ...
There is general agreement among members that the committee be changed from “temporary” and that the committee should be recognized as one of the many full-fledged AAPT Committees. The committee has been “temporary” since 1980, but the AAPT needs this committee on a continuing basis.
...and got it.
Note: Prior to 2004, the SI Units and Metric Education committee was a temporary committee. In January 2004, the Executive Board changed the committee's status to a permanent advisory committee.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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Make it simple; Make it Metric
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