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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> 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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