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Re: [Phys-L] To gal or not to Gal.



On 09/26/2013 12:28 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
So much for real experiments at the Tower of Pisa. The modern scientist has to stick to Gedanken.

Another possibility would be to go to Illinois and use the Leaning Tower of Niles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_Tower_of_Niles

However, if you do the experiment in the US, you would have to be careful, because
as I understand it, the US gal is about 20% smaller than the imperial gal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/GasCan.jpg/300px-GasCan.jpg