POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Oh. Joy. : Re: Oh. Joy. Server Time
3 Sep 2024 23:28:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Oh. Joy.  
From: Stephen
Date: 8 Jul 2010 13:32:55
Message: <4c360bc7@news.povray.org>
On 08/07/2010 6:28 PM, Warp wrote:
> Stephen<mca### [at] aoldotcom>  wrote:
>> On 08/07/2010 5:07 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> What's the metric unit of pressure like this, out of curiousity?
>>>
>
>>    1 psi equals 6,895 Pascals or N/m^2
>
>    Isn't it confusing that "pound" is both a unit of mass and of force?
>
Not to native English speakers.
If you want to differentiate between them then you will say pound-force 
(speakers of technical English only).


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Best Regards,
	Stephen


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