Does your delay when modified by haste, round up / down?

[Rkelly]

Originally Posted by Juevento [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As someone in a technical field, I hate the metric system. I have absolutely zero frame of reference for metric units (i.e. length, force, pressure, energy, etc). With imperial units I have an innate understanding of what a lbf, psi, btu are.

Having said that milliseconds aren't necessarily metric as they are used in all unit systems.

how is a foot pound or a british thermal unit more intuitive than a joule

[Juevento]

Because I have a sense of what magnitude those values represent.

If you tell me something has a tensile strength of 120 kPa, I have no idea of that's high or low or somewhere in the middle. Tell me it has a strength of 31 ksi, I know that's a fairly weak material.

Same thing for moment/torque. If something's got an applied moment of 120in-lbf (or 10ft-lbf) it's easy to imagine someone cranking a 1 foot long lever with 10 lbf or applied force and have a good sense for the resulting deflection, stress level, etc. For something like N-m, I don't even know where to start with that as I have no idea how heavy a Newton is with respect to a lbf. I could look it up but it's not nearly intuitive for me.

Perhaps that comes with being in a country (America) and an industry (aerospace) that heavily utilizes the imperial system, but that's my perspective and has generally always been even back in college where both methods were taught.