Re: SI units

["Rauber, Joel Phys" <RAUBERJ@mg.sdstate.edu>]

I'm a little curious (but don't want to start a big long thread).

Why does one have to fight the use of the word "kilo" instead of "kilogram", 
other than the fact that it isn't blessed by the SI authorities? (I'd rather 
have to fight the use of 'kilo' than the battle of fighting the word 
'pound').

(Certainly in either case you want to fight the  idea that it is a unit of 
weight)

Joel rauber
(from the US, an uncivilized country, where the SI system of units is 
woefully lacking in its common use; except in those 'mean', 'nasty', 
'horrible' required science core courses)
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From: Guntbert Reiter
To: QuistO; RAUBERJ; phys-l
Subject: Re: SI units
Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 9:25PM

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

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