Is anyone familiar of a mobile app that can do operations with common engineering units?
For example doing something like this would be great:
(5kN + 3kip)/5ft^2 = 3.5kPa
If you want it to do the math, not just convert, I can only think of Wolfram Alpha. I cannot confirm that that it can do that exactly but i know their website is powerful and it is made from Mathmatica and Stephen wolfram.
What situation would require you to do that - other than a homework problem?
Seems like it would be better to do the conversion yourself just to make sure you get a feel for the magnitudes.
You can also just type equations straight into google and it will do the math and unit conversion for you. If you're working in force, make sure you use lbf or it gets confused. If you want it to spit out a specific unit you can tell it that too.
For instance type in
pi * 5lbf / m^2 in kPa
and it will give me:
pi * 5 (lbf / (m^2)) = 0.0698725017 kilopascals
as the response before the first search result. If you've got a quick search bar you don't even have to hit enter. It just shows up as the suggested result in the drop down.
I haven't tried it on a tablet, but a quick scan of the Net suggests that only Windows Surface Pro 8 tablets will run the full version of MS Office, including VBA.
Do you have to do this on a mobile device?
There is a free program much like MathCad called Smath Studio.
I used the desktop version before and it works pretty well.
PTC has just release Mathcad Prime 3, which, like MP2, has an "Express" unlicensed mode that locks certain "premium" features. Nonetheless, MP3 Express might be sufficiently usable in Windows, but would be less capable than Smath Studio in some respects.
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