On Apr 6 , at 8:18 AM, John M. Steele wrote:
I know you love the kiloliter, but I personally find the cubic meter
a lot easier to visual. You know, it's about 1 m x 1 m x 1 m. :)
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, STANLEY DOORE <[email protected]> wrote:
To go along with putting L (liter) first, (but) I suggest using
the kL (kiloliter)
in place of a cubic meter in non-engineering (public) usage. kL is
much easier
to use and is more understandable by the public.
I go along with John on this. Stanley may think of a kilotitre to be
easier to visualize, but I don't. I keep trying to visualize a
thousand one-litre bottles of a beverage (or five hundred 2 L bottles,
etc.). None of that works for me.
But a cube 1 m long and 1 m wide and 1 m high is easy to visualize.
Before I retired, I concluded that my nice big desk in my lab occupied
a space very close to a cubic metre. It was a bit longer than 1 m but
a bit shorter than 1 m, and had a width of just about 1 m, so it came
out quite close to 1 m^3.
I used that as my example of a cubic metre for students in my metric
and in my physics classes.
Bill Hooper
1810 mm tall
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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