It's all fun and games until you crash a multi million dollar rocket because of a unit conversion error (Google Mars Climate Orbiter)
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cyberd
70 m/s and one dickhead teacher
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lord_crop
In high school physics you could mostly infer what to do by knowing the units asked for and provided. At least that got me through well, while mostly not paying attention, good maths background (well, simple integration and differentials mostly does it at that level), and not doing jack shit for the class at all.
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mikehuik
70 times I did your mom
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og_busta
Yes
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psychoham
40m/s + 30m/s = 251.9999999798
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blacktrader
He's right you know.
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dj_dave
70(Apples+bananas) of course :D
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lilraz
No. 70 to the question you just gave me teach
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bramver
Meanwhile actual physcists: I'm gonna set the speed of light, the gravitational constant and planks constant to 1. Mass and length now have the same units. If you ever need to know the right units you can probably figure it out. Have fun!
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bfs_000
It's all fun and games until you crash a multi million dollar rocket because of a unit conversion error (Google Mars Climate Orbiter)
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cyberd
70 m/s and one dickhead teacher
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lord_crop
In high school physics you could mostly infer what to do by knowing the units asked for and provided. At least that got me through well, while mostly not paying attention, good maths background (well, simple integration and differentials mostly does it at that level), and not doing jack shit for the class at all.
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mikehuik
70 times I did your mom
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og_busta
Yes
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psychoham
40m/s + 30m/s = 251.9999999798
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blacktrader
He's right you know.
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dj_dave
70(Apples+bananas) of course :D
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lilraz
No. 70 to the question you just gave me teach
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bramver
Meanwhile actual physcists: I'm gonna set the speed of light, the gravitational constant and planks constant to 1. Mass and length now have the same units. If you ever need to know the right units you can probably figure it out. Have fun!
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