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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Wind Chill Index
Message-ID: <279fe91b:1544.6comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 08:40:14 GMT
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Omigosh, you won't believe this.  In the Teacher's Edition of Addison
Wesley's "Algebra and Trigonometry" high school textbook (1988), page
305, it gives the same formula for "windchill temperature" as we've seen
above, but it leaves the units in the SI base: degrees Celsius, and
windspeed in m/s.

But they stupidly thought that m/s means miles per second!  Here's what
it says:  "... where T is the actual temperature given in degrees Celsius
and v is the wind speed in mi/sec."  Wow, that's fast wind!

Problem 50 then asks the student to calculate the windchill temperature
given T=7 and v=8.  Let's see; 8 mi/sec = 28,800 mph, according to the HP
48.  Some wind!

Hey - at that speed, wouldn't the temperature RISE due to air friction?

No wonder our kids are graduating from high school totally innumerate...