• mvirts@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      E=mc^2 so m is joule seconds^2 / meter ^ 2

      F=ma so m is Newton seconds^2 / meter

      A joule is 1 Newton / meter so they agree

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          17 days ago

          A J = Ns not N/s

          One Joule of energy is one Newton of force applied for 1 second.

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            17 days ago

            Muphry’s law at work - for both of us, actually. I looked it up (since with Ns the units no longer worked out between E = mc² and F = ma), and a joule is actually a Nm, a Newton-meter. And with that the units do work out correctly on both equations.

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              17 days ago

              That is really unintuative, torque is Nm…how can energy also be Nm.

              But then I look at it and J = Ws = N(m/s)s = Nm