Re: when to write radians

[John Barrer <forcejb@YAHOO.COM>]

--- "Diff, Karim" <karim.diff@SFCC.EDU> wrote:
> If we follow the suggestion of writing radians as
> (meters of arc)/(meters of
> radius) then omega becomes ((meters of arc)/(meters
> of radius)) / (second).
> When you multiply by r ( meters of radius) you end
> up with (meters or arc)
> /(second)  for the units of the linear velocity,
> which can be abbreviated as
> m/s.
In my original post, I did not suggest writing radians
as you describe, but rather that students understand
what a radian is operationally and therefore how it
becomes "dimensionless" (although strictly speaking
it's not). John Barrere


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