February 25, 2008

Funny Units

Passage from my 2.001 book:

"The column is made of concrete having a density of 2.30 Mg/m^3."


it's not every day you encounter MEGA-GRAMS!!!

3 comments:

Aditi said...

hahahaa...

My 11th grade physics text used spiderman as an example for projectile motion!

Shruthi said...

Ah, our text book was pretty vague, at least yours had some known characters, while all we got was random people pulling trucks and even random looking objects getting flooded with charges!

Anonymous said...

wait how is this funny or special or anything at all? please i don't understand. at all. what else would you call them?