you wont be ignorant if they reply i weigh XX newtons and don't get what he/she says. it is just out of our daily vocabulary unless of course you are a physicist or researcher and something along those lines.
i think magiadam got carrried away with his new found knowledge of high school physics. Why talk about newton when mass data is more meaningful. If i give u mass data and u can't understand that, then i wonder who is ignorant and wrong.
silly mistake by manufacturers.... they should make a much bigger sticker to indicates the weight. hemisphere weight = X kN pole weight = X kN sea level weight = X kN 100m from sea level weight = X kN 300m from sea level weight = X kN next time, when i want to buy steel bar, i will ask them to weight it at 1000m from sea level. cause they are charging me with weight, not mass...... BC is very good. other than teaching me badminton, i do learn other things...
theoretically, you spelled theoretically wrong. frankly, do you answer XX newtons when someone asks you your weight? if you do, then you are weird. if not, i dont see what the big fuss is about.
You're starting to sound like a troll, magiadam. Can you answer the query that people have been asking? "What do you say when people ask how much you weigh?" x Newtons, or x kgs? Either way, you're pinned down. Newtons, people think you're weird despite you think them ignorant, and if kgs, then you've just gone against your premise. -dave
it is not a stereotype. 99.9% of people would use kg to tell people their weight. ask anyone on BC, they won't disagree with me.
I learn this in first year physics, this is what the prof told me, it is wrong in physics terms, but it is generally accepted in the real world therefore is right. and make keep things simplify.
Thanks for clearing things up. That's what myself and some others were meant to say before.. It's the same for English.. there's a difference between 'then' and 'than', but as long as others can understand what they mean by it, then it's not really much of a problem at all. For example.. some people here may say: 'this racquet is better then that racquet'. We know that he or she should have used 'than' instead of 'then', but we all know what they mean and there's no need to bother them by correcting their English grammar either, so we dont.
Totally agreed with you when people can't even tell that lb is force, not a mass, and start bragging on some internet forum. Woot.
this thread is getting no where with both sides not seeing (or deliberately not willing to see) the argument of the other. closed.