ECOR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fuel Gauge, 5,6,7,8, Volumetric Flow Rate
29 Sep 2016
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Ecor 1010 introduction to engineering (fall 2016) Laboratory 2 units, dimensions & significant figures. We often become annoyed when we have to make tedious conversions between various units. And why do textbook problems keep giving quantities first in pounds and then in kilograms (or worse, in both! An interesting and instructive canadian case study comes to mind in which passe(cid:374)gers of air ca(cid:374)ada"s flight 143 learned the importance of units the hard way. On july 23, 1983, twelve kilometres above the manitoba countryside, the unthinkable happened: a brand new air canada boeing 767-200, flying from montreal to edmonton, ran out of fuel. The 132 tonne, - million aircraft became a glider, dropping at over 600 metres per minute with no hope of reaching the closest city airport, which was in winnipeg. Amazingly, the powerless aircraft made a successful emergency landing at an abandoned airbase in gimli.
