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Conversions

 

As with the measures of temporal periodicity, all three spatial measures can be converted among each other. It is important to be able to do this quickly.

If one cycle takes a distance tex2html_wrap_inline771 , then the number of cycles which occur per unit distance is

  equation44

Because there are tex2html_wrap_inline783 radians in one cycle, the number of radians which we cross per unit distance are therefore

  equation49

where we remind ourselves that we may drop the optional ``unit'' tex2html_wrap_inline793 . Finally, combining (1-2), we have

  equation59



Tomas Arias
Mon Oct 15 16:15:07 EDT 2001