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BenEzra is Absolutely Right!!!!
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/weight.htm
However, this does nothing to clear up the confusion of someone trying to do a simple kinetic-energy calculation in the English system. And I must say that it's really stupid to have two completely different units, for different entities, with the same name. So I was going to say something nice about the English system... but that's just because I didn't know enough about it (same principle applies to politicians; if you can say something good about them, you just haven't researched enough).
Anyway, if anyone is going to calculate bullet energies: just convert the mass and velocity of the bullet into metric units, get an answer in joules, then convert to calories, then to kilocalories. This will tell you that a chocolate bar has more energy than any civilian rifle bullet, even the "mighty" .50 Browning.
And that's why chocolate-control laws are necessary. Expect an Oprah special soon.
>Mass is the invariant length of a particle's momentum four-vector. Weight is the three-dimensional manifestation of a particle's attempt to follow a geodesic through four-dimensional spacetime.
Excellent!
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/weight.htm
However, this does nothing to clear up the confusion of someone trying to do a simple kinetic-energy calculation in the English system. And I must say that it's really stupid to have two completely different units, for different entities, with the same name. So I was going to say something nice about the English system... but that's just because I didn't know enough about it (same principle applies to politicians; if you can say something good about them, you just haven't researched enough).
Anyway, if anyone is going to calculate bullet energies: just convert the mass and velocity of the bullet into metric units, get an answer in joules, then convert to calories, then to kilocalories. This will tell you that a chocolate bar has more energy than any civilian rifle bullet, even the "mighty" .50 Browning.
And that's why chocolate-control laws are necessary. Expect an Oprah special soon.
>Mass is the invariant length of a particle's momentum four-vector. Weight is the three-dimensional manifestation of a particle's attempt to follow a geodesic through four-dimensional spacetime.
Excellent!
