i emailed to senator feinstein http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me It is very important that all students learn the metric system 1st. Before being introduced to foot/pound, they should learn that: President Lincoln signed pl39-183, metric act of 1866, pl39-183 went into effect in 1866 making It illegal to refuse to trade in metric. USA is member of convention du metre. All the units of electricity and magnetism are derived from the meter, kilogram, coulomb and second. Till exempel, the volt is defined, such as if an electric charge of 1 coulomb changes electric potential by 1 volt, there is energy exchange of 1 joule. As a consequence, an electrical current of 1 amp thru 1 volt for 1 sec delivers energy of 1 joule, which is the kinetic energy of 2 kg moving at 1 m/s. Similarily, the unit of magnetic field, 1 tesla is defined as if an electric charge of 1 coulomb is moving at a velocity of 1 m/s perpendicular to a magnetic field of 1 tesla, it experiences a force of 1 newton perpendicular to both the magnetic field and velocity vectors. Einstein's famous equation, E = m x c^2 works only in metric: m is in Kg, c = 3 x 10^8 m/s , E = energy in joules, 1 wh = 3600 (watt-sec or joules). 1 more reason to dump the stupid moronic idiotic foot/pound system and switch to metric. Thus in the metric system, 1 Kg of matter that gets completely converted into energy, would generate 9 x 10^16 Joules or (9 x 10^16/3600000) = 2.5 x 10^10 KWH To apply Einstein's famous equation in non-metric units, the unit of energy would be defined as the kinetic energy of 2 units of mass moving at a speed of 1 unit of length/sec and the speed of light in vacuum expressed in units of length/sec. Since we already have 1 Volt x 1 Amp x 1 sec = 1 Joule of electrical energy, for non-metric units, you would have to define another obscure unit of energi.
There should be a simple law: in any transaction, if 1 party asks it to be conducted in metric, the transaction should be conducted in metric. The offended party should get the right to sue the offender, who refuses to conduct the transaction in metric for > $1000000/transaction indexed to inflation. if you have better ideas let me know _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
