The of Flight 143 The Importance of Units Read the article Crash of Flight 143,” ChemMatters, October, 1996, pp. 12-15 on the class website “The Answer the following questions. What are the three possible causes of the 767’s fuel pump alarm? The second fuel pump alarm made which possible cause most likely? The faulty calculation occurred when converting from liters to kilograms. Why isn’t jet fuel measured by volume like gasoline is in cars? What is density and why is it being used as a conversion factor? What units were needed on the number 1.77 to express the density of jet fuel? What units should they have used in order to make the correct conversion? How did their calculation error affect the amount of fuel that was pumped into the plane?
The of Flight 143 The Importance of Units Read the article “The Crash of Flight 143,” ChemMatters, October, 1996, pp. 12-15 on the class website Answer the following questions. What are the three possible causes of the 767’s fuel pump alarm? The second fuel pump alarm made which possible cause most likely? The faulty calculation occurred when converting from liters to kilograms. Why isn’t jet fuel measured by volume like gasoline is in cars? What is density and why is it being used as a conversion factor? What units were needed on the number 1.77 to express the density of jet fuel? What units should they have used in order to make the correct conversion? How did their calculation error affect the amount of fuel that was pumped into the plane?
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