From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 21:08:32 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>>Energy should come out in ft-lbs, and one foot-pound apparently
>>is 1.356 joules (I looked it up---my failure to work this out
>>from first principles is humiliating). So if you are correct,
>>then this translates to 1.07 x 10^13 joules, no?
>
>
> I misstated the units, which should be ft-lbs^2/sec^2. Foot-lbs are a
> measure of torque, with no time component.
Foot pounds can be a unit of energy too, since it is
a force times a distance. But do spare us the archaic
units, all of you, and state energy in terms of joules,
or newton meters.
spike
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