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  • ftbd@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMaths rule
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    8 hours ago

    Especially in a middle school math/physics setting, I would expect reasonable units. Otherwise, how would kids understand the relationship between force and acceleration? Do you use mile / hour / min for the acceleration due to gravity as well? Do you have a funky replacement for Newton too?




  • ftbd@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMaths rule
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    5 days ago

    That’s not the problem. Coming from metric, I expected m s-2 for acceleration. The imperial units for distances are weird enough in their own right – but using two different units of time for the two time derivatives is truly unholy.