Teresi, Dick
As these are all units of energy they can be converted from one unit to another. One Million BTU (MBTU)= 10.002 Therm [US]. 1 Therm [U.S.] = 29.30 kilowatt hour (1 kilowatt hour = 0.03413 therm [U.S.]). Often using electric heating is less polluting at the use point. Additio...
And that can be converted to … well, you’ll have to do the rest of that research yourself because we could go on forever. Torque – what is it? Now, remember that figure of 550 foot-pounds? We said that 1 horsepower was equal to 550 foot-pounds “per second.” It’s important ...
Measurement begins with a definition of the quantity that is to be measured, and it always involves a comparison with some known quantity of the same kind. If the object or quantity to be measured is not accessible for direct comparison, it is converted or “transduced” into an analogous me...