On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:17:53 GMT, Gene Nygaard
wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:38:14 -0500 (CDT),
(Richard Harrison) wrote:
Gene Nygaard wrote:
"Look in the textbooks you used, and see if the authors have any
footnotes citing the authority for whatever definition they use.
My Random House American College Dictionary (circa 1950) says:
"kilogram, n. Metric System. a unit of mass and weight, equal to 1000
grams and equivalent to
2.2046 pounds avoirdupois.
For pounds, the same dictionary says:
"Pound. 1. a unit of weight and of mass, varying in different periods
and countries.
Pounds and kilograms are different units for the same things, force and
weight.
Still haven't figured out that your claims that both kilograms and
pounds are names of both a unit of mass and a unit of force is at odds
with what Dave Shrader and Richard Clark have been telling us, have
you?
Okay people.... before this thread goes any further wrong than it
already has....
Kilograms (base unit of measurement, the gram) are units of MASS.
This is a measure of the amount matter in an object...
Pounds are a unit of force, a measurement of the gravitational
attraction a body has relative to another, reference, body.
A 2 kilogram object will have the same mass on the earth as it does on
the moon.
A 60 pound object on the earth will have a weight of 10 pounds on the
moon.
If you kiddies are going to argue physics, you really SHOULD get your
terms straight.
God, pseudo-intellectuals really do begin to wear thin quite
quickly...
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