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Old 23rd Mar 2018, 16:31
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Re: Swatton.

1 Newton is the force to accelerate a mass of 1kg at 1m/s^-2, not 1kgx1m/s^-2

Kg are mass and Newtons are force. So 1kg causes about 10 N force downwards at 1g. It is untrue to say that 1kg is about 10N.

ASIR = IAS, they are simply different words for the same thing.

Whilst you can technically separate out gauge errors from pressure/position errors - it isn't actually done that way. Gauge errors are assumed to be trivially small and randomly distributed, so we only consider PEC in total as the total difference between IAS and CAS.

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