[sdiy] Metric vs imperial, was: My new Moog 960 sequencer clone module project.. slowly but surely ..

David G Dixon dixon at mail.ubc.ca
Wed Nov 11 07:36:54 CET 2020


pound-mass and pound-force are easy.  What about slugs and poundals?

Of course, the stupidest thing about English units is the "gravitational
constant" which is just a number engineers need to tape over the train-wreck
of English units. 

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Subject: Re: [sdiy] Metric vs imperial, was: My new Moog 960 sequencer clone
module project.. slowly but surely ..

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> On 10.11.2020, at 21:20, Ingo Debus <igg.debus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> To fulfil Newton's equation F = m *a, he had to "invent" a new mass unit,
which he called "mica". He needed a whole chapter of his book to explain
that! (After googling a little, I found that such a unit already exists,
called blob).

what about "pound-mass" and "pound-force"?
m.
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