[Amps] Metric system

[Gary Smith]

And your boss thought he was asking you a sly question.
Congrats on your "gotcha" on him.
73,
Gary... wa6fgi
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Kirkby 
  To: amps at contesting.com 
  Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:17 PM
  Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric system


  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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