Exchange and Biological Transformations of Energy. 123 



TABLE 31. 

 Equivalents of units of energy. 1 (0 = 980.5) 



1 Armsby's Principles of Animal Nutrition, New York, 1906, p. 233. 2 Gram calories. 'Kilogram calories. 

 4 Smithsonian Physical Tables, 1920, p. 197, table 212, gives 4.184 joules as "best" value for 1 gram calorie 

 (20 C.). (<7 = 980.7) 



TABLE 32. 



Equivalents of power, work, and energy. (g = 981 centimeters per second 



per second.) 



1 horse power = 745.956 watts. 2 



1 horse power = 4562 . 42 kilogrammeters per 



minute. 1 1 



1 horse power = 33,000 foot-pounds per 1 



minute. 1 1 



1 watt = 0.1019 kilogrammeter per second. 1 

 1 watt = 0.737308 foot-pound per second. 2 

 1 watt = 1 joule per second = 10,000,000 ergs 



per sec. 



1 Smithsonian Physical Tables, 1896, p. 19. 

 4 Mann and Twiss, Physics, 1910, p. 213. 



British thermal unit per second = 1055 



watts. 4 



British thermal unit = 778 foot-pounds. 4 

 gram calorie per second = 4. 187 watts, 

 kilogrammeter per second = 9.81 watts. 1 

 British thermal unit = 0.251996 kilogram 



calorie.' 

 watt-second = 0.2388 gram-calorie. 



2 Ibid, p. 21. 3 Ibid, p. 24. 



TABLE 33. 

 Miscellaneous equivalents. 



1 meter 



1 meter 



1 kilometer = 



1 mile 



1 inch 



1 cubic foot = 



1 cubic inch = 



39.3700 inches. 1 

 3. 28083 feet. 1 

 0.62137 mile. 1 

 1609.35 meters. 2 

 25.4001 millimeters. 2 

 28. 3 17 liters. 3 

 1728 cubic inches. 2 



0.028317 cubic meter. 3 

 16 . 387 cubic centimeters. 2 



1 ounce avoirdupois = 28 



1 pound = 453 



1 quart (U. S.) = 



1 liter = 1 



1 mile per hour= 26 

 1 meter per minute = 



bic inch = 16 . 387 cubic centimeters.'' 



1 Smithsonian Physical Tables, 1920, p. 6. 2 Ibid, p. 5. 



3 Smithsonian Geographical Tables, 1918, p. 173. " Ibid, p. 174. 



3495 grams.* 

 59 grams. 2 

 94636 liter.' 

 05668 quart 



(U. S.). 4 

 . 822 meters 



minute. 

 .03728 mile 



hour. 



per 

 per 



