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From: phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Crystal Question (Please forgive me)
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Date: 18 Feb 88 15:59:12 GMT
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Keywords: hertz  = cycles per second

In article <3129@tekgvs.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
>In article <18035@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>>
>>Frequency is measured in cycles, not cubits, bushals or yards.
>>Hertz rents cars.
>
>Hertz may rent cars, but frequency is measured in cycles PER SECOND!

According to Noah:

hertz, n.; pl. hertz or hertz'es, [after Heinrich Hertz, G. physicist.]
the international unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second.

Using hertz rather than cycles per second is much like saying newtons
rather than kg m / sec^2. 'nuff said?

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