Acceptable pressure units

[Anonymous No.12659209]

Are the units: kg/m^2
acceptable for depicting pressure? I recognize they aren't common, but surely they're fine?

[Anonymous No.12659251]

>>12659209
Not the right dimension, a pressure is a force over a surface, not a mass over a surface. You're missing an acceleration.

[Anonymous No.12659252]

>>12659209
mass over area?

[Anonymous No.12659294]

>>12659251
>>12659252
In the context of calculating hydrostatic pressure?:
metres * kg/m^3 = kg/m^2

[Anonymous No.12659342]

>>12659294
still missing acceleration, i.e. P = rho g h for example. what is this textbook youre referencing

[Anonymous No.12659465]

>>12659342
Human Physiology by Sherwood (see pic related)

[Anonymous No.12659545]

>>12659465
Maybe that's acceptable in the field of medicine...but in phys/chem they are not accepted.

[Anonymous No.12659621]

It's acceptable in the context of medicine. I mean, it's a more visualizable unit for doctors and other retards. It assumes standard g acceleration which is the case 99.999999999999999+% of the time anyway. But I do wonder if it's a forced metric analogy of PSI for that
>>12659465 Canadian Edition. PSI is pounds per square inch. American units don't differentiate between mass and weight (force), they just assume Earth g.

[Anonymous No.12659645]

>>12659209

Reasonably kg/m^2 is an acceptable measurement of pressure.

[Anonymous No.12659658]

>>12659621
They do actually, usually lb_f and lb_m for pounds of force and pounds of mass. At standard g, lb_f = lb_m of course so in most cases it is just up to context of whether to differentiate

[Anonymous No.12660251]

>>12659209
>>12659251
>>12659252

kek, OP is calculating the density of a two-dimensional piece of graphite

[Anonymous No.12660647]

>>12659342
>>12659251
stop being dense. kgf/m^2 IS in fact a quantity of pressure.
nobody uses it because atmospheric pressure would be much less than 1 in these units, making them a shit choice. SI people use kilopascals, bar, millimeters of mercury, while americans use psi and inches of mercury, but all of which assign a reasonable value to 1 atm.

[Anonymous No.12660710]

>>12659645
wrong because what if your kg is on the moon or jupiter?

[Anonymous No.12662840]

F/A isnt that just m

[Anonymous No.12663439]

>>12662840