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the paper is reporting milli newtons and claims the measurement device can measure micro newtons - or am I missing something?
by sfifs 10y ago
the paper is reporting milli newtons and claims the measurement device can measure micro newtons - or am I missing something?
- danielmorozoff 10y agoNo you're absolutely right. This is more a holy crap paper from Nasa, this actually might work.
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- AcerbicZero 10y agoThe paper is actually reporting measurement of millinewtons with 40/60/80 watts, and estimating that when pushed up to a 1kW it would generate micronewtons.
- lutusp 10y agoWait ... a millinewton is 1000 micronewtons, not the other way around. Not taking a position on this issue, just posting a clarification.
- sfifs 10y agoI stand corrected. They appear to have measured forces in tens of micronewtons while the error is in single digit micronewtons. Still the confidence interval is an order of magnitude smaller than the measured force which is not bad.