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#51 2015-06-04 19:24:02
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Re: Why can't americans use metric system?
Ratburntro44 wrote:Nope, oddly enough, the kilogram actually is considered the base unit. To be honest I don't really understand why.
This is why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
While nice, that video really doesn't explain anything at all (pertaining to this subject). It pretty much just says that it is because it is.
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#53 2015-06-04 23:41:28
Re: Why can't americans use metric system?
Ratburntro44 wrote:Nope, oddly enough, the kilogram actually is considered the base unit. To be honest I don't really understand why.
This is why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
It's like no-one looked at the link I posted or anything
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#54 2015-06-05 00:03:12
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Re: Why can't americans use metric system?
JaWapa wrote:Ratburntro44 wrote:Nope, oddly enough, the kilogram actually is considered the base unit. To be honest I don't really understand why.
This is why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
It's like no-one looked at the link I posted or anything
you posted a link?
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#55 2015-06-05 12:38:47
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Re: Why can't americans use metric system?
Anyways how does Americans transform pounds to inches, volume etc.?
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#56 2015-06-05 15:48:44
Re: Why can't americans use metric system?
Anyways how does Americans transform pounds to inches, volume etc.?
Lol, you can't transform a weight measurement into a length measurement. It doesn't work like that.
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#57 2015-06-05 19:53:06
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Re: Why can't americans use metric system?
Zumza wrote:Anyways how does Americans transform pounds to inches, volume etc.?
Lol, you can't transform a weight measurement into a length measurement. It doesn't work like that.
Yes you can, you just need a linear density.
The kilogram is the base unit because a gram is too small.
That's not really a reason at all. They don't give any explanation for why the base unit must be large enough for practical applications- it wouldn't really make a difference for practical applications if they called the gram the base unit and then just measured things in kilograms, would it? Saying a gram is "too small" doesn't explain anything about why it isn't the base unit- all it explains is why we usually measure (non-tiny) things in kilograms, which is a very different matter. Asking why the kilogram is a base unit is asking why we set a Joule equal to a kilogram meter squared per second squared when we could have just set it to a gram meter squared per second squared and then kept the kilo prefix on the new unit after the conversions like you would do with a prefix on any other unit.
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