Texas Instruments TI-89 Voyage 200, User Manual

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acceleration due to gravity, which is a constant named _g). Convert the result from
newtons to kilograms of force.
Steps and keystrokes Display
1. Display the
MODE
dialog box, Page 3. For
Unit System
mode, select
SI
for the metric
system of measurements.
Results are displayed according to these
default units.
Press
3 … B
1
¸
2. Create an acceleration unit for
meters/second
2
named _ms2.
The
UNITS
dialog box lets you select units
from an alphabetical list of categories.
You can use
2 D
and
2 C
to scroll
one page at a time through the
categories.
If you use the
UNITS
dialog box to select a
unit, the _ is entered automatically. Now,
instead of re-entering
_ m/_s
2
each time
you need it, you can use _ ms2. Also, you
can now use the
UNITS
dialog box to
select _ ms2 from the Acceleration
category.
Press
2 À D B
M
¸ e 2
À D D D D B
S
¸ Z
2
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5 2
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MS
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2
¸