This semester I have to study this subject called Fluid Mechanics and the prob is most chemical engineers deal with chemicals and fluids using the Imperial measurements so our texts and tutorials are all given in Imperial units. So it's time to wave goodbye to 9.81 N m^-1 and 8.31 J K-1 mol-1 and other constants expressed in the SI units. It's really annoying to handle those freaking units. One simple example is the pound. Like it took one whole freaking day to realize that one pound-mass and one pound-weight are different i.e. 1 lb is not 1 lb...duh! And it took me many many hours to do many many readings to figure out that 1 lb-f = 1 lb-m * 32.2 ft s-2. And 32.2 is the new g i have to get myself familiarized.
For those ignorant ones, there's this funny 'lil unit known as degree Rankine (deg R) for measuring temperature. OMG! The Americans are coming up with more units to fit themselves nicely into scientific world. And 0 deg R happens to be at the same point with 0 Kel but unlike the Kelvin division, it has the Farenheit division...duh!
And another unit that stumbled me the whole of today is the pound-mole! Argghh...never did know in my whole life the mole I've been dealing with for the past 10 years is called the gram-mole to engineers! Maybe the world would be better if we come to agree with a standard unit. Just maybe. But if everything is so fixed, then there wouldn't be fun...like how my Cultural Transition lecture loves to say: culture is nothing without contrast.
The imperfect world could be the most perfect thing in the Universe.
