Fwd: cubic gallons

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Mon Sep 26 22:18:10 UTC 2005


>
>         Doubtless your colleague's position was undercut by
> the fact that cubic feet per second is not a measure of
> volume.  Cubic feet is a measure of volume.  Cubic feet per
> second is, as you indicate, a measure of flow rate.
>

To get hyper-precise (as us engineers are wont to do), CFS is a measure
of volumetric flow rate (as opposed to mass flow rate, such as kg per
second).



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