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Originally posted by unregistered
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read up on how those Frenchies came to 'measure' a metre
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Old news. Nowadays the meter is determined by the speed of light, seconds by the frequency of a Cesium atom, and kilograms by the big old block of metal they keep over there in France.
So France has the distinction of being the only country holding an object that is a universal standard for a unit of measurement.
A lot better than having us measure things by the length of King Louis XVI's arm, I think.
murray13: Heat transfer applications are usually run in terms of heat transfer coefficients, which are W/C*m^2. This is usually multiplied by area when the area isn't known, thus eliminating it.
The terminiology of the inverse of the coefficient - impedence, resistance, etc - isn't widely agreed upon in the texts I've read. So long as we set a name for it here we'll be fine.
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