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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> 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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Warp wrote:
> I think you are confusing force (newtons) with pressure (pascals), which
> is force per unit area.
Yes.
> 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).
Ah, thank you. I never really learned what a "bar" was. So one bar is
approximately one atmosphere? That sounds about useful.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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> Ah, thank you. I never really learned what a "bar" was. So one bar is
> approximately one atmosphere? That sounds about useful.
See the other thread about Andrew's heating system, it's also useful that 1
bar ~= 10 metres of water for quick estimations.
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On 09/07/2010 8:11 AM, scott wrote:
>> Ah, thank you. I never really learned what a "bar" was. So one bar is
>> approximately one atmosphere? That sounds about useful.
>
> See the other thread about Andrew's heating system, it's also useful
> that 1 bar ~= 10 metres of water for quick estimations.
>
>
Or 1 bar ~= 34 feet of water. (In real money) ;-)
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> Or 1 bar ~= 34 feet of water. (In real money) ;-)
As opposed to what? The square root of -1 money? :-P
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On 09/07/2010 8:51 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
>> Or 1 bar ~= 34 feet of water. (In real money) ;-)
>
> As opposed to what? The square root of -1 money? :-P
As opposed to new money. £sd -> £p.
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Stephen
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>>> Or 1 bar ~= 34 feet of water. (In real money) ;-)
>>
>> As opposed to what? The square root of -1 money? :-P
>
> As opposed to new money. £sd -> £p.
There are 10^0 + 1 kinds of people...
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On 09/07/2010 10:25 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Or 1 bar ~= 34 feet of water. (In real money) ;-)
>>>
>>> As opposed to what? The square root of -1 money? :-P
>>
>> As opposed to new money. £sd -> £p.
>
> There are 10^0 + 1 kinds of people...
Yeah, thee and me. ;-)
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Stephen
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>>>>> Or 1 bar ~= 34 feet of water. (In real money) ;-)
>>>>
>>>> As opposed to what? The square root of -1 money? :-P
>>>
>>> As opposed to new money. £sd -> £p.
>>
>> There are 10^0 + 1 kinds of people...
>
> Yeah, thee and me. ;-)
>
Aye.
(Or should that be "i"?)
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scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> it's also useful that 1 bar ~= 10 metres of water for quick estimations.
I didn't quite understand that.
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