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Re: [Phys-l] unit conversions

On Feb 20, 2009, at 2:30 PM, David Appell wrote:

"Bill Nettles" wrote:
Like I tell my students, you have to pay attention to units and do the unit conversions.

Here's something that will change your life:

Go to Google and type "50 mph in km/sec" and hit return.

It will tell you the answer. It will do nearly any unit conversion you
can imagine. I don't think it's ever let me down once.

David

1) I just tried this a got this message:

No results found for "50 mph in km/sec".

2) The "50 mph in km/s" also did not work.

3) Why is it so?


Ludwik Kowalski, a retired physics teacher and an amateur journalist. Updated links to publications and reviews are at:

http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/ http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/my_opeds.html http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/revcom.html