In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities. (John Bazell)
A BTU (British thermal unit) is the energy required to raise 1lb of water 1 degree Fahrenheit…which may actually be even dumber, since it’s temperature sensitive to begin with. Dumbest of all, the Brits don’t use that unit very often. The US, and, I assume, Liberia use it all the time.
Unfortunately converting 1 calorie to joules ruins everything 4.2J per calorie. Makes it annoying to calculate how quickly you can boil water for instance.
it takes dedication to print full color these days. on 11x17 no less
On what now?
The what?
All that toner, too.
She could have at least switched to lightmode first.
To Europeans who use German industry norm paper: that’s DIN A2
thats A4 bro
Looks like she’s holding A3, not unless she’s absolutely tiny.
Being corrected on a German industry norm, how does that feel? A little ironic, maybe?
Oh schnapps!
A3. Not A2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216
Some people will use some letter salad just to avoid the imperial system /s
Don’t imperial have like 3 different letter sizes depending on the country?
From what I have found, the US has 216mm × 279mm while Canada has 215mm × 280mm which is close enough.
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities. (John Bazell)
Is that something people wonder about? I doubt it.
It’s not like physicists, chemists or engineers are a thing.
I’m glad you admit yourself it’s not a thing
They are in fact 3 things
A BTU (British thermal unit) is the energy required to raise 1lb of water 1 degree Fahrenheit…which may actually be even dumber, since it’s temperature sensitive to begin with. Dumbest of all, the Brits don’t use that unit very often. The US, and, I assume, Liberia use it all the time.
Oh, I love these freedom units
As someone with both solar panels and a water kettle I promise you this is something I frequently wonder about!
Unfortunately converting 1 calorie to joules ruins everything 4.2J per calorie. Makes it annoying to calculate how quickly you can boil water for instance.
Iirc the Joule is favoured over the Calorie in the SI system.
That’s a full 16x20 bruh