From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Dec 11 04:42:10 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NJ4oy-0007Jj-Or for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:42:09 -0800 Received: from mail-yw0-f178.google.com ([209.85.211.178]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NJ4on-0007EE-1V for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:42:01 -0800 Received: by ywh8 with SMTP id 8so838474ywh.3 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:41:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=O9H4iVrP7YRkz1kemX2HSCLVAxjqaedbLBmOQqTKjlI=; b=O7xIOsYX28hxcUFnG1A2N1rjESL2+1Id6aaU6Ft2v2kdGl1egrbWrb6b9KmcdWbfBi tNZxaw6vLf4byikst7juMEZYrR01rR0Vlwfy9x9tDr1C0SBVJiyf4l8s+s0nTETC33jW v9d3+0B0sB6QddupWxXACMh90QzuUbe9MtXso= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=C5AOBToKG+TnS2pNydhAnizNgHdmjbXQDOOP1YmMcS9Xz6oQaZ6HNoATHfip3yH0OL o4kWnf+v35ba/qUlu3seAREId+i3YvU0K+nI7aJrss1jhwR74fDaxofk7Y7uPGiBLWo0 Ri8Y6QhxZ7M9uC/wvzOpRkSeo158KAeO1/m7w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.39.27 with SMTP id m27mr1520051agm.78.1260535309986; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:41:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <85c354a20912102040tf3f384asdb76305237a57199@mail.gmail.com> References: <429fde40912101249s24079419g2804c566b311b2a2@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560912101349u1b601d8i299215cf294c57a7@mail.gmail.com> <200912101715.05760.phma@phma.optus.nu> <925d17560912101728q10ed995fg2202bfc242e14b0c@mail.gmail.com> <85c354a20912102040tf3f384asdb76305237a57199@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:41:49 -0300 Message-ID: <925d17560912110441w1a236368j90c4297e3d2322dc@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: On units and mekso From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-archive-position: 2644 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Ross Ogilvie wrote: > Angular acceleration is in units of inverse square seconds (because radians > are dimensionless). > > e.g. imagine a 3 kg mass on the end of a 5 metre arm, which has an angular > acceleration of 0.5 inverse square seconds. The linear force is then 7.5 > Newtons. Right, but that's really (1/2) (1/s^2), not 1/(2 s^2). How would you phrase it so it involves "2 square seconds"? mu'o mi'e xorxes