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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!ds8.scri.fsu.edu!jac
  2. From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Units (was Re: E=MC^2)
  5. Message-ID: <10572@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
  6. Date: 3 Sep 92 14:40:50 GMT
  7. References: <64995@cup.portal.com> <BtuHLD.L53@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <mcirvin.715297106@husc8> <65184@cup.portal.com> <10571@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
  8. Sender: news@sun13.scri.fsu.edu
  9. Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
  10. Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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  13. In article <10571@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
  14. >
  15. >So 9 x 10^{13} Joules from 1 gram would be the equivalent of the energy 
  16. >released by 0.02 megatons (21,500 tons or 4.3 million pounds) of TNT. 
  17.                                            ^^^
  18.  
  19. correction, 43 million pounds, caught just after :-( I hit RETURN.
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  23. J. A. Carr                                    |  "The New Frontier of which I  
  24. jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu                           |  speak is not a set of promises
  25. Florida State University  B-186               |  -- it is a set of challenges."
  26. Supercomputer Computations Research Institute |   John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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