Re: What is the 'BEST' Unimat ?
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You¡¯re welcome Pat.? As a science major I got used to the metric system in high school (early 1960s) as almost every class I had drilled us on using the metric system and doing conversions.? As calculators were rare (and expensive), they were not allowed in class so everything had to be done on a slide rule.? When students complained, one of my teachers used to tell them, ¡°Come on now.? It¡¯s as easy a falling off a log.¡±? Most in the class never got the pun. ? When I was a grad student in radiological sciences (which was health physics and some medical physics) I missed my chance to take the reactor operator class (we had a small Triga reactor in the basement of the physics building) .? Instead, the department chair dropped me and another student into the first two quarters of medical school, which likely did me more good as a health physicist..? ?? ? Jerry F. ?? ?
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pat goodyear
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 10:49 AM
To: Gerald Feldman; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Unimat] What is the 'BEST' Unimat ?? Jerry; you popped a memory bubble.? ?Back in Naval Nuclear Power School (1974) in order to grasp unit conversions, we had all sorts of goofy conversions to do.? One was to convert furlongs per fortnight to inches per second, to mm per second .....? ?As? some of our calculations dealing with forces inside a reactor at power could be mind numbing.? ? Anyhow thanks for the blast from the past.? ?
Pat
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