Awl-Right! Jason
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From: James R. Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 4:57 AM
Subject: [USMA:11081] Fwd: Re: "The Sun Does a Flip": comments
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Did anybody hear water dripping?
Jim
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Subject: Re: "The Sun Does a Flip": comments
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:46:52 -0800
From: "Dr. Tony Phillips" ....
Dear James -- thanks very much for your comments. I'm glad you'll be able
to use the article in your class in spite of those cgs units -- I guess I
had better get with the times and begin thinking in Tesla, although I can
probably never bring myself to refer to an astronomical unit as a "ua!"
Best regards, Tony
At 11:24 PM 2/16/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Dr. Tony Phillips, Space Directorate, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
>copy to: Ron Koczor, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
>
>Dear Dr. Phillips,
>
>I found your article at
> http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm
>regarding the heliomagnetic field and its recent flip to be extremely
>interesting and serendipitously timely for my Introductory Physics
>classes. I intend to distribute copies of the article to them and
>discuss it on Monday (with credits intact, of course) as part of my
>pre-test review in our study of magnetism.
>
>However, I am going to have to explain an obsolete unit that you used in
>the article -- the gauss. ....
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