[HN Gopher] What Is Dimensional Analysis?
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What Is Dimensional Analysis?
Author : cgadski
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-09-13 08:44 UTC (1 days ago)
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| chowells wrote:
| Dimensional analysis crimes are the best crimes. Express velocity
| in meter-hertz. It's wrong, but the units are right!
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Brings back memories. We had a particularly strict physics
| teacher who only awarded full marks if our answers were
| numerically correct, with correct units, and we proved (with a
| little marginal aside simplifying all mass, length and time) that
| the dimensions were also correct.
| smitty1e wrote:
| This was interesting, but I was expecting something more along
| the lines of base units =>
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
| m0llusk wrote:
| Kind of odd that this doesn't really go into metrics directly nor
| does it mention one of the more interesting cases which is
| infinite dimensionality.
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