Philip E. Barnes wrote:
> In the course of some design work I'm doing I was looking at a
viscosity
> table and discovered an interesting bit of trivia for oil. For each
step in
> viscosity number, light oil doubles in viscosity; i.e SAE 20 oil is
twice
> as viscous as SAE 10 and SAE 50 is10 times the viscosity of SAE 10.
Now you
> know...
Let's see . . .
SAE 10 has viscosity X
SAE 20 has viscosity 2X (twice that of SAE 10, as you note)
SAE 30 has viscosity 4X (twice that of SAE 20, or 2 * 2X = 4X)
SAE 40 has viscosity 8X (similarly)
SAE 50 has viscosity 16X (and so forth)
Since you say the viscosity of SAE 50 is _10_ times that of SAE 10, why
do I get _16_ times the viscosity?
Just wondering,
Jim Hill
Madison WI
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