Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Chapter 2
Units and Dimensions
Objectives
2. Units
The means of expressing the dimensions base, multiple
and derive.
• System of Units
– System International (SI) e.g. meter, kilogram, second
– CGS e.g. centimeter, gram, second
– American Engineering Systems (AES); e.g. foot, pound-mass lbm, second
Basic measurements
Quantity Unit Symbol
Mass (M) kilogram (SI) kg
gram (CGS) g
pound-mass (AES) lbm
Length (L) meter (SI) m
centimeter (CGS) cm
foot (AES) ft
Time (T) second for all unit s
systems
Temperature Kelvin (SI and CGS) K
(K) Fahrenheit (AES) oF
Cont.: Basic Measurement
unit
Temperature
T(K) = T(oC) + 273.15
T(oR) = T(oF) + 459.67
T(oR) = 1.8T(K)
T(oF) = 1.8T(oC) + 32
Practice of converting units
Convert 1 year to second.
Second step: calculate the total fuel consumption per plane per
year from fuel consumption data per plane
4816 planes
Example 2
𝑓𝑡 3
1500𝑚3 × 35.31 3 = 52,965𝑓𝑡 3
𝑚
85.3𝑙𝑏𝑚
3
× 52,965𝑓𝑡 3 = 4,517,914.5 𝑙𝑏𝑚
𝑓𝑡
Solution for Example 2
𝑓𝑡
4,517,914.5 𝑙𝑏𝑚 × 32.174 2
𝑠
𝑓𝑡
32.174 =Standard gravitational acceleration
𝑠2
Example 3
Second step: calculate the total fuel consumption per plane per
year
5320 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛(kerosene) 14 ℎ𝑟𝑠 365 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠
× ×
1 ℎ𝑟 1 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟
4.54609 𝐿 0.965𝑔 (𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑒) 1000𝑐𝑚3 1 𝑡𝑛
× × × × 6
1 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑚3 1𝐿 10 𝑔
119.2608 × 103 𝑡𝑛 (𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑒)
=
𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟
Third step: calculate the total number of planes