[time-nuts] Ultra low phase noise floor measurement system forRF devices.
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Apr 1 17:20:09 UTC 2007
In message <460FD021.9000401 at erols.com>, Chuck Harris writes:
>We can play that game Poul-Henning, by using joules, one thing becomes easy,
>and another becomes hard, but in the end, you always have to return to remembering
>arbitrary constants.
That's likely to be a matter of fact for any universe :-)
>How many joules does it take to heat up one gram of water 1C ?
>With calories it is easy: 1 calorie.
Right, so it's easy for water, but what about gasoline ?
I far prefer to be able to convert effortlessly between units, than to
embedd arbitrary material properties in my measurement units.
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