> On Sep 9, 9:54 am, Chris Friesen snipped-for-privacy@mail.usask.ca> wrote: >
> >> -the force due to gravity on earth of 1kg is very close to 10 newtons >
> > Thank you Chris. For the first time in my life I have an intuitive
> > feel for what a friggin Newton is: it's 100 grams or the amount of dry
> > pasta needed for a regular plate or the amount of prosciutto I would
> > buy for lunch.
>
> > Yes I know the difference between mass and weight. But for most
> > practical purposes on the face of the earth, the difference doesn't > > matter.
>
> That's only because you don't have one of my gee-whiz passive solar
> heating panels yet. :)
>
> > And I knew that a Newton was one kilogram-metre per second
> > squared. & I could do some calculations with it, but I didn't know > > what it was!
>
> Now the challenge is to find a (bathroom/postal/deli/freight) scale
> calibrated in Newtons. ;)
>
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USAformatting link
Personally...I don't give a fig about Newtons.