🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <748@hplabsc.UUCP> dsmith@hplabsc.UUCP (David Smith) writes:
>> 
>> I   = m V   / m g     =  V     /  g
>>  sp      e        o         e       o
>
>But why is it defined with that silly g-naught in the denominator?
>(all together now!)
>
>	    TO JUSTIFY MEASURING IT IN SECONDS!

   David Smith is clearly right.  The *only* possible justification for
introducing a factor of g0 -- a completely arbitrary constant from the
point of view of, say, a lunar lander! -- is to make things simpler for
those who use the English system and don't know enough to distinguish
between pounds and pounds-mass (or slugs).
   That it has always been done that way is no excuse.  The misunder-
standings of the past are no justification for continuing a source of
confusion in the future.

   -- David desJardins