[Elecraft] Units

[Barry Garratt]

Actually a radian is an angular measurement whereas a Hertz (hertz) is a
frequency measurement.

1 radian = 57.2958 degrees

1 hertz = 1 cycle per second

Barry VE3CDX/W7
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon K Hellan [mailto:hellan at acm.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 5:14 AM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Units

Bill W5WVO wrote:
> Silly thread -- :-) -- but it is important to keep one's facts 
> straight. The Cycle per Second was named the Hertz in compliance with 
> a long tradition in the scientific community of naming scientific 
> units of measure after the folks who did seminal work in those areas 
> of science. Mssrs Alessandro Volta (voltage), Andre-Marie Ampere 
> (current), Georg Ohm (resistance), James Watt (power), Nicola Tesla 
> (magnetic flux density), Blaise Pascal (pressure), and Isaac Newton 
> (force), to name just a few I can think of off the top of my head, 
> were all "just men". :-) Heinrich Hertz (electromagnetic frequency) 
> takes his rightful place in this pantheon proudly.

But given that the radian already is an SI unit, the Hz is redundant.
Radians/s is sufficient.

Jon LA4RT