To Whom It May Concern:
I'm no scientist, which is exactly why I'm poring through this Web site. But facts are facts, I suppose...
I believe that there is an error in the first section of volume II, where you begin to explain how we measure electrical units. You compare it to measuring mass and termperature.
When you refer to measuring mass, you write, "For mass we might use the units of 'pound' or 'gram.'"
I could be wrong, but I thought pounds were only used to measure weight -- that's to say the measurement of gravity's effect on an object (objects weighing differently on the moon, for example, than on Earth). Mass I had always understood as an absolute, to be measured only in grams, and only on a balance.
Am I wrong? Can mass, indeed, be measured in pounds?
Just curious. Thanks for the great site.
Austin
I'm no scientist, which is exactly why I'm poring through this Web site. But facts are facts, I suppose...
I believe that there is an error in the first section of volume II, where you begin to explain how we measure electrical units. You compare it to measuring mass and termperature.
When you refer to measuring mass, you write, "For mass we might use the units of 'pound' or 'gram.'"
I could be wrong, but I thought pounds were only used to measure weight -- that's to say the measurement of gravity's effect on an object (objects weighing differently on the moon, for example, than on Earth). Mass I had always understood as an absolute, to be measured only in grams, and only on a balance.
Am I wrong? Can mass, indeed, be measured in pounds?
Just curious. Thanks for the great site.
Austin