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Re: Stop using calories?


Jim Green writes:
, Ludwik wrote:
4186 J/(kg*C) or 4.186 J/(g*C), if you prefer, calls for a subject
which I do not have to touch when we are practicing calorimetry.

J/(kg*oC)??? But why don't you write J/(kg*K)?

I'm not sure that a degree celsius is the same size as a degree kelvin.
However, I like your idea of standardizing one or the other for the
SI system of units. Let's work on it. Send a not on your idea to the
AAPT Metric Committee.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we still find it hard to get away from using degrees Fahrenheit)