Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> So when the instruction book for your car tells you how much pressure to put 
> in your tires, do they really say "put 206,000 newtons of pressure in your 
> tires"?

  I think you are confusing force (newtons) with pressure (pascals), which
is force per unit area.

  Things like air pressure are measured in pascals or, more traditionally,
in bars (1 bar = 100 kilopascals), and sometimes (even though rarely
nowadays) in atmospheres (1 atm = 101325 Pa).

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                                                          - Warp

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