REFLECTOR: mixed units

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I just hate it when that happens...
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: HYTEC45 at aol.com 
  To: reflector at tvbf.org 
  Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:34 AM
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: mixed units


  In a message dated 9/11/2008 10:03:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ALVentures at cox.net writes:
    or pounds per square millimeter with sq mm of the piston surface. Don't mix the units.

    Matt



    A little tongue-in-cheek there?  In ISU (international system of units), that would be Newtons/square meter; which you could then convert to Kg/sq mm. That’s if you’re talking force.  If you’re talking pressure, then I guess it could be Pascals, or even barsJ. And I don’t think you’d find any fig newtons in a bar.  Oops; mixed units.



    Al 

  Wasn't it something like this that caused the Mars Polar explorer to crash during orbit insertion??
  TEC





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