The kL is the same size as a cubic metre. So what's the problem? The litre is
a very commonly used volume by virtually all people.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hooper
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:58 PM
Subject: [USMA:44468] Re: FPLA 2010
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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