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Of course!<div><br></div><div>After years of using mph though, kph seems more natural than kmph. In fact I cannot imagine saying "kay - em - pee - aitch"</div><div><br></div><div>What do others write/say?</div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="">David King</div><div style="">Physics HoD</div><div style="">Christ's College</div><div style="">Private Bag 4900</div><div style="">Christchurch</div><div style="">New Zealand</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">David Porteous <<a href="mailto:porteousdha@xtra.co.nz">porteousdha@xtra.co.nz</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">10 May 2008 12:07:12 PM</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"David King" <<a href="mailto:dking@christscollege.com">dking@christscollege.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: warm and cold winds</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">What a lot of responses this inquiry has received but David, kph oh no kmph!</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">It's not 1000ph!!!</font></div><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Another David</font></div><br><div align="left" style="text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><i><b>David King <<a href="mailto:dking@christscollege.com">dking@christscollege.com</a>></b></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:</font></div><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Can someone help?</font></div><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I got myself in a bit of a confuddle yesterday trying to answer a pupils question.</font></div><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"Sir, why, if temperature is to do with Kinetic Energy is wind cold?"</font></div><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I started on evaporation from the skin etc and the idea of us 'feeling' cold, when he asked</font></div><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"Why do we have warm winds? What's the difference?"</font></div><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I started to answer then stopped. What makes air particles travelling at whatever kph warm or cold?</font></div><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Cheers</font></div><br><br><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">David King</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Physics HoD</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Christ's College</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Private Bag 4900</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Christchurch</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Helvetica" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">New Zealand</font></div><br><br><br><br><br><br><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">_______________________________________________</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Phys-teach-talk mailing list</font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="mailto:Phys-teach-talk@nzip.org.nz">Phys-teach-talk@nzip.org.nz</a></font></div><div align="left" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 4.29497e+09px; text-align: left; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://nzip.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/phys-teach-talk_nzip.org.nz" target="_blank">http://nzip.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/phys-teach-talk_nzip.org.nz</a></font></div><br><br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>