Re: [Phys-L] form of Newtons 2nd law

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

Yes, I know.  I am being facetious.  But I seem to remember that the
US/British engineering system is consistent and would not require an extra
constant. After looking it up, it seems that right now there has been a
flurry of conversions to SI for common usage in many countries.  So the US
is being even more isolated unit wise.  After 2015 we may be the only
country to not have SI used in common measurements.  Of course many
countries still tolerate non SI in some common usage so England still uses
stones for weight.  And new products are usually metric dimensions.  So CDs
and cassettes are all in metric dimensions.  But don't they train engineers
to use SI in most foreign countries?  Are they still training engineers in
Britain using the Imperial system?

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> Foot & pound & combinations.
> Fouad Ajami
>
> > What non SI system do engineers use that would need this?  
> It seems that he
> > wants to use a mixed system.  Are we talking about 
> furlongs, links, chains,
> > stones...
> >
> > The problem here is that engineers tend to be sometimes 
> very rigid in their
> > thinking.  I had a dad who told me we were teaching torque 
> wrong.  It is
> > true that engineers have their own terminology, but that 
> hardly makes ours
> > wrong.  Are the French wrong because they speak French 
> rather than English?
> > John M. Clement
> > Houston, TX 
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: phys-l-bounces@phys-l.org 
> > > [mailto:phys-l-bounces@phys-l.org] On Behalf Of Larry Smith
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:12 PM
> > > To: Phys-L@Phys-L.org
> > > Subject: [Phys-L] form of Newtons 2nd law
> > >
> > > My engineering colleague says I should teach N2 as F = kma 
> > > where k can make it work in non-SI-unit systems.  How do you 
> > > respond to such requests?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Larry
> > >
> > >
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