Spurious Response wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Spurious Response wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bz wrote:

It take 1 cal to raise 1 ml of water by 1 degree.
A watt is about 0.239 cal/second.

Does the USA still teach calories rather than Joules ?


kiloCalories. Based on (utilizes) BTUs.

Bizarre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_thermal_unit

Not used in Britain., although for some curious reason central heating boilers
and radiators continued to be specified in them until quite recently. Thankfully
they're in kW now.

Graham