[Land-speed] Fun things...

[Jon Wennerberg]

Foot pounds forever!

Jon a/k/a SSS



On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Larry Mayfield wrote:

> Ok, so I woke the list up with my simple what's going on message to the
> list, eh? How about some fun thinking.  One of my pet peeves is the not so
> subtle change from the way we talk about the units of torque, i.e.  lbs-ft
> versus ft-lbs.  I have a hard time understanding a) the necessity of that,
> b) the reasoning of it, and c) the who gives a crap of it.
>
> The rules of arithmetic (math) are pretty well known, and when the
> associative laws are used then it does not matter one whit. And we all grew
> up using it as ft-lbs so let's start a movement back to the way things
were.
>
>
> Reasoning is thusly... think about a dyno, say a water brake one. It has a
> lever that measures from the center line of the brake to the load cell and
> that is usually measured in feet not centimeters, millimeters, meters or
> yards.  The load is measured at the end of that lever. The associative laws
> say that you can use any order in multiplication of numbers and by that I
> mean it does not matter if you multiply the length of the lever  by the
load
> first or the load times the lever. One way gets you ft - lbs, the other
> gives you lbs-ft.  The order of units is not material.  And ft can stand
for
> foot or feet.
>
> Who's with me? Let's take our heritage back!  Ft-lb ers unite and arise!
> Time we reclaimed our way of life.. Hell Yeah!
>
> mayf