From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 15:21:21 MDT
--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> 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.
Call me archaic, will you? Sounds like bait for another flame war... ;)
I thought personal attacks were against list rules.... ;)
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