The Physics of "A Liter and a Gram"

The original lyrics begin, "I love you a bushel and a peck".
This parody version takes things rather to extremes in terms of quantifying love! The units used:

1 liter = 0.001 cubic meters = 1.057 quarts

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms, which on Earth weighs 0.0022 pounds

1 meter = 1.094 yards

1 Newton (the force which will accelerate a mass of 1 kg at a rate of 1 m/s2) = the weight of 0.225 pounds

1 Watt = 0.0014 horsepower*

1 poundal (the force which will accelerate a mass of 1 pound at rate of 1 foot/s2)
= 0.138 Newtons = the weight of 0.031 pounds

1 dyne (the force which will accelerate a mass of 1 gram at a rate of 1 cm/s2)
= 10-5 Newtons = the weight of 2.25 millionths of a pound or about the weight of a mosquito

1 foot-pound (the torque exerted by a force of one pound with a moment arm of 1 foot) = 1.36 Newton-meters

1 erg = 10-7 Joules = 2.8 x 10-14 kilowatt-hours, or about the energy needed for a mosquito to do a pushup

1 calorie (the amount of energy needed to heat a gram of water by 1 degree C)
= 0.001 Calories (the kind weight-watchers count) = 4.18 Joules = 1.16 x 10-6 kilowatt-hours

1 degree Centigrade is as big a change in temperature as 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit

Most of the above conversions were obtained from the Google units converter. For example, type "2.4 meters in yards" into Google.
There is also a very nice web-based units converter available here.

*One horsepower really is about the amount of power a horse can provide, at least over a short period. Click here for more details.

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