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minus-squarenooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoDoesn’t apply here, say for example i have a piece of steel with length 100mm and it stretches 10mm, is mm/mm the strain would be 0.1 mm/mm, in meters it would be 0.1m/m Really strain is dimensionless but occasionally people add units
minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoI feel like I should’ve spotted that… they’re the same units. 🤦
Doesn’t apply here, say for example i have a piece of steel with length 100mm and it stretches 10mm, is mm/mm the strain would be 0.1 mm/mm, in meters it would be 0.1m/m
Really strain is dimensionless but occasionally people add units
I feel like I should’ve spotted that… they’re the same units. 🤦