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At 2:16 PM -0700 1/18/10, Jeff Loats wrote:
On the first day of class I do a brief example to illustrate unit conversion (snore) and I usually spice it up by making it very silly (such as density measured in gigaslugs per parsec cubed).I tell them Benjamin Franklin was famous for hiding oil in the joint of his bamboo cane and then "calming the waters" of a troubled pond by releasing the oil on it. Turns out that one teaspoon of oil spreads out to cover about 0.5 acre of pond. /snip/
I thought I would ask here to see if anyone had a neat unit conversion example that left you with a sense of "huh, I didn't know that" or "that was cool!" or something similar.
Larry