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> familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over. I took high school and college physics courses (in the US) and have spent 15+ years developin
by tossaway1 10y ago
> familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over.
I took high school and college physics courses (in the US) and have spent 15+ years developing physics-related software and I don't recall ever hearing gravity expressed in ft/sec^2. I can't gauge whether this "familiar" principle is itself a joke or if there are places where gravity is taught as 32 ft/sec^2 rather than 9.8 m/sec^2...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWhere did you get taught? I've heard it as 32 ft/sec^2 since I was a kid...
- casion 10y agoSame here, and in fact I'm tutoring someone whose physics book is right here... It's all labeled in ft/sec^2
- mrexroad 10y agoStrange. Since high school, I've always heard m/s^2. United States, mid Atlantic region.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoUS East, North Atlantic, for comparison. As I said in grandparent, ft/s^2.
- santaclaus 10y agoUS, high school in the south, 9.81 m/s^2 for life! I have never heard any physics in feet...
- dwe3000 10y agoFt in high school, m in college ...
- mikestew 10y agoYou youngin's arguing about where you were taught ignore that more important might be when you were taught. Your high school years might have been when I was already working on my second marriage and buying a house. And therefore, ft/second^2, bitches.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago...I'm still in highschool, and I'm on ft/sec^2.
- mikestew 10y agoI find that to be...disappointing. I mean, is there a U. S. high schooler today that couldn't handle a metric measurement? When I was in high school we were trying to get there with dual measurement road signs (km/miles) and metric soft drink bottles. Then Reagen got into office, viewed the metric system as some sort of communist plot, and axed the Bureau of Metric Whatever back in the 80s. So we had an excuse. These days I'd think it almost unconscionable to teach kids scientific measurements in anything but metric.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI dunno. We've used metric in other sciences, and I've only encountered acceleration in passing as of yet. Maybe we'll get metric units in Physics.
- eximius 10y agoFor your sake, I hope you do. I prefer miles, feet, and farenheight for every day use, but for science metric is king.
- surrey-fringe 10y agoGo back to Canada.
- flueedo 10y agoAccording to Wikpedia the all countries which haven't adopted the Metric System are: USA, Liberia, Myanmar.
- mannykannot 10y agoBritain is metric much like it is European.
- surrey-fringe 10y agoThat's why I said go back to Canada...
- trynumber9 10y agoSame, I've only ever heard it in metric. And I went to school in the rural Midwest. I thought we would have been one of the last holdouts.
- johncolanduoni 10y agoAs far as I can tell no college uses ft/sec^2, but I've heard mixed things from people who went to different high schools (in the US).
- WalterBright 10y agoMy high school used ft/sec^2
- paulddraper 10y agoI've heard both a lot. It's expressed as convenient to the problem. For example, muzzle velocity is always given in ft/s in the US. So for ballistics problems (faster than a speeding bullet...), ft/sec^2 would probably be used.