{"id":117337,"date":"2015-08-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=31b34b871413c94f39e4bd9d11bf9f16"},"modified":"2015-08-21T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:00:00","slug":"time-to-ditch-non-si-units-in-physics-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=117337","title":{"rendered":"Time to ditch non-SI units in physics teaching?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current use of two sets of units in the UK continues to be a source of muddle and confusion.<br \/>\nYoung people are taught metric (SI) units in school but, in the outside world, still have to contend<br \/>\nwith units such as inches, feet, pounds, stones and miles. Specialist teachers and practitioners of<br \/>\nthe sciences are not blameless. This paper considers the fact that some units commonly used in<br \/>\nphysics, astronomy, and physics education are unnecessary, involve time-wasting conversions and<br \/>\nfrequently lead to confusion or even error. This unsatisfactory situation is illustrated by<br \/>\nexamples, and suggestions are made for a radical improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current use of two sets of units in the UK continues to be a source of muddle and confusion.<br \/>\nYoung people are taught metric (SI) units in school but, in the outside world, still have to contend<br \/>\nwith units such as inches, feet, pounds, stones and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}