Re: [Amps] Metric system

[David Kirkby <david.kirkby@onetel.net>]

Jerry Muller wrote:
> Speaking of professors, my Thermodynamics professor (grad school) worked 
> exclusively in fps units (PSI, BTU/hr, Degrees Rankin). I thought this was 
> bogus so I turned in all my work in the metric system until I finally 
> decided to give him a required pressure in dynes/acre on one of the exams.

Once I worked somewhere where I was asked to compute the heat dissipated 
by some computers. I gave an answer is Watts, but was told by my boss he 
  did not want it in Watts. He never stated what units he wanted it in 
(although I might have guessed BTU, since it was for air conditioning 
purposes), so I recalculated it in kilo Joules/fortnight. He then 
replied "Watts were OK".


-- 
David Kirkby,
G8WRB

Please check out http://www.g8wrb.org/
of if you live in Essex http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/


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