Physics 101
For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from MKS or CGS units to English units, here are some useful English system conversions:
- Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:? Eskimo Pi
- 2000 pounds of Chinese soup:? Won ton
- 1 millionth of a mouthwash:? 1 microscope
- Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:? 1 bananosecond
- Weight an evangelist carries with God:? 1 billigram
- Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong
- 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:? 1 lite year
- 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone:? 1 Rod Serling
- Half of a large intestine:? 1 semicolon
- 1000 aches:? 1 megahurtz
- Basic unit of laryngitis:? 1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance between two jokes:? A straight line
- 453.6 graham crackers:? 1 pound cake
- 1 million-million microphones:? 1 megaphone
- 1 million bicycles:? 2 megacycles
- 365.25 days:? 1 unicycle
- 2000 mockingbirds:? two kilomockingbirds
- 10 cards: 1 decacards
- 1 kilogram of falling figs:? 1 Fig Newton
- 1000 grams of wet socks:? 1 literhosen
- 1 millionth of a fish:? 1 microfiche
- 1 trillion pins:? 1 terrapin
- 10 rations:? 1 decoration
- 100 rations:? 1 C-ration
- 2 monograms:? 1 diagram
- 8 nickels:? 2 paradigms
- 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University:? Hospital: 1 I.V. League