"stoogefreaky" wrote:You know what, all mesurment units are hard for me.
Maybe you are trying too much to put a meaning on them. The only measurment units I really understand are centimeters (roughly inches), meters (roughly feet) and seconds. Beyond that I can't really "feel" units, even millimeters, tens of meters (I don't "see" the difference between 100 and 500 meters). Temperature is even more abstract to me (I only understand cold, warm, and neutral). Accelerations (distance divided by the square of time) is something I don't even understand on an intuitive level.
Nevertheless, I never had troubles deducing formulae (sometimes rather complex) and making the calculations afterwards. I think it comes from the fact that when I manipulate them I don't try to put meaning on them, because at this level, meaning is useless. What is useful is the relations between measurement units: speed is distance divided by time, acceleration is speed divided by time, or distance divided twice by time (divided by the square of time), etc. Once the useless meaning is discarded, and the relations well known, everything becomes easy. At least for me...
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