Dimensionless units

Ed Shaya edward.j.shaya.1 at gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Feb 18 08:51:11 PST 2005


I should add that in Pedro's system (if I may call it that), after doing 
a dimensional analysis that determines that a factor of c can be used to 
convert from one set of units to another, then the system must launch 
into a unit analysis to convert everything to SI base units so that c in 
units of m/s can be used.  One can devise equivalent variants of this 
but the point is that both unit analysis and dimensional analysis are 
done and they are different beasts.

Ed



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