[Land-speed] Fun things...

[Larry Mayfield]

Very Good!   And I think I know why the people who use newton meters use it..
It makes their cars sound much more powerful than they are! Yup, a 100 newton
meters is only 73 ft-lbsb&.  Yeah, that must be it! Ego involved?



Mayf

Having fun with thisb&



From: Jim Volgarino [mailto:volgarino at mail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 10:13 AM
To: Jim Volgarino; Jon Wennerberg; Larry Mayfield
Cc: land-speed at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fun things...



Menat to send this attachment earlier...



----- Original Message -----

From: Jim Volgarino

Sent: 04/02/14 12:07 PM

To: Jon Wennerberg, Larry Mayfield

Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fun things...



----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Wennerberg
Sent: 04/02/14 11:06 AM
To: Larry Mayfield
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fun things...

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
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