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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Why km/h (or mph) and not ft/year? Because the numbers have a nicer magnitude then.

[-] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago

Doesn't apply here, say for example i have a piece of steel with length 100mm and it stretches 10mm, is mm/mm the strain would be 0.1 mm/mm, in meters it would be 0.1m/m

Really strain is dimensionless but occasionally people add units

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

I feel like I should’ve spotted that… they’re the same units. 🤦

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