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What does a Newton-meter of torque feel like? Reopening a plastic soda bottle. From a web interactive I wrote: http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p
by mncharity 10y ago
What does a Newton-meter of torque feel like?
Reopening a plastic soda bottle.
From a web interactive I wrote: http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p=CK6Ji&m=torque http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p=CK6Ji&m=torq... (2014)
- Koshkin 10y ago> Newton-meter I do not know why (and I do not have a strong opinion on this), but somehow this (relatively recent) tradition of naming units after people feels weird to me. I know we are already used to these units, but imagine the unit of mass was called Einstein instead of kilogram.
- nitrogen 10y agoHow recent is the trend? Most of the units I know are named for people: Joule, Watt, Volt, Ampere, Newton, Angstrom, Ohm, ...
- Symbiote 10y agoBy convention, SI units named after people have capital letters for their symbol. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html
- Koshkin 10y agoI am sure Newton didn't name the unit of force after himself, so I would roughly place the invention of such possibility around early/mid nineteenth century, that is, about 200 years ago, which is when the research in such areas as electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics etc. was in full swing.
- daurnimator 10y agoThe Newton unit has been around since 1948. But that was hardly the first term to be named after someone: Watt has been used since 1882, Farad since 1881, Fahrenheit since 1776...
- Koshkin 10y agoNote that the name of the unit is 'degrees Fahrenheit', but I agree - this could be something that started the tradition, which became stronger with new discoveries in physics and chemistry in 1800s.