[Land-speed] Fun things...

[lft at clear.net.nz]

I'm with the ft-lbs. I can hold a lb in my hand....ever
tried holding a newton? Doesn't exist I say....figure some
alien in a parallel universe slipped it across when no one
was looking....they do that you know.....just like when they
'borrow stuff' for a while.....

Nigel...down in NZed....just booked flights for
August....see ya'll there.



----- Original Message Follows -----
> 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
> 
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