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Re: SI units



Joe Darling wrote on Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:14:25 -0600 (CST) :

I believe we have a number of participants from metric countries.

Yes, there are :-)

I also believe they announce their weight in kilograms instead of=20
newtons, an uncomfortably larger number. =20

I never announce my weight (my mass neither :-))

In ernest: We try to get the [mass]=3D1kg; weight=3Dforce [force]=3D1N
ting into the brains and hearts of our students already at the
first time they have physics (at about 12). And I as a teacher
for the 16 to 19 years old use definitely newton when I'm talking
about weight and kilogramm when talking about mass (BTW: we have
to fight "kilo" as popular abbreviation for "kilogramm")

Bye, bye
Guntbert
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+please correct me, if I misuse some technical terms+
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Mag. Guntbert Reiter, Graz, Austria
teacher for physics, mathematics and computer science
e-mail : guntbert@asn-graz.ac.at