Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics 8th Edition

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 1118412931
ISBN 13: 978-1-11841-293-0

Chapter 1 - Exercises: Things Engineers Think About - Page 27: 1

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In 1998, NASA Mars Climate Orbiter veered off course and was lost because ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N.s),

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In 1998, NASA Mars Climate Orbiter veered off course and was lost because ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N.s),
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