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mks or cgs
Man Tol
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Hi!Mr. Paco Esquembre,
For a model that is drawn to scale in centimeter, should I use g=980m/s/s or maintain the g=9.8m/s/s in the aux variable? My problem is that when using g=9.8m/s/s I may not be getting the true rpm result although it may seemed  operating normally. When using g=980m/s/s the model just  goes haywire  then freezes.


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Re: mks or cgs -
Francisco Esquembre
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Actually, EJS does not use the units in any form.
But I'd rather think that 9.8 is the correct value. If 980, you are running the system at a very high acceleration and things will move too quickly.

Paco



Re: Re: mks or cgs -
Man Tol
5 Posts

Thank you Sir!



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