And your boss thought he was asking you a sly question.
Congrats on your "gotcha" on him.
73,
Gary... wa6fgi
----- Original Message -----
From: David Kirkby
To: amps@contesting.com
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric system
Jerry Muller wrote:
> Speaking of professors, my Thermodynamics professor (grad school) worked
> exclusively in fps units (PSI, BTU/hr, Degrees Rankin). I thought this was
> bogus so I turned in all my work in the metric system until I finally
> decided to give him a required pressure in dynes/acre on one of the exams.
Once I worked somewhere where I was asked to compute the heat dissipated
by some computers. I gave an answer is Watts, but was told by my boss he
did not want it in Watts. He never stated what units he wanted it in
(although I might have guessed BTU, since it was for air conditioning
purposes), so I recalculated it in kilo Joules/fortnight. He then
replied "Watts were OK".
--
David Kirkby,
G8WRB
Please check out http://www.g8wrb.org/
of if you live in Essex http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/
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