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Re: Unit conversion of a list of quantities

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  • Subject: [mg131974] Re: Unit conversion of a list of quantities
  • From: Itai Seggev <itais at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:22:44 -0500 (EST)
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Not possible.  UnitConvert has attribute Listable and therefore must work over
lists the same way as scalars.  Also, it works for me

In[5]:= fdep/mass
Out[5]= {1.1264*10^-12 J/g,2.672*10^-13 J/g,2.672*10^-13 J/g}
In[6]:= UnitConvert[%, "Grays"]
Out[6]= {1.1264*10^-9 Gy,2.672*10^-10 Gy,2.672*10^-10 Gy}

If it's not working for you, perhaps you somehow entered the unit so that your
"g" isn't Grams but some other unit, like g-force.  Look at mass//InputForm
It should be using "Grams":

In[9]:= mass // InputForm

Out[9]//InputForm=
{Quantity[0.043937500000000004, "Grams"], Quantity[0.06987, "Grams"], 
 Quantity[0.02329, "Grams"]}




On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:27:51AM +0100, mariusz sapinski wrote:
>    Hi Itai,
>    Many thanks for your suggestion. For a single quantity it works. It
>    does not do anything for a list of quantities (see screenshot).
>    Could it be that UnitConvert cannt take a list as an argument?
>       Cheers,
>             Mariusz
> 
>    On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Itai Seggev <[1]itais at wolfram.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:28:37AM -0500, mariusz sapinski wrote:
>      > I have the following lists:
>      > Edep = {4.9491200000000017`*^-14 Joules,
>      >   1.8669264000000004`*^-14 Joules, 6.223088000000001`*^-15 Joules}
>      > mass = {0.043937500000000004` g, 0.06987` g, 0.02329` g}
>      >
>      > I want to calculate dose:
>      > dose = Edep/mass
>      >
>      > I get another list (of Quantities):
>      >
>      > {(1.1264*10^-12 Joules)/g, (2.672*10^-13 Joules)/g, (
>      >  2.672*10^-13 Joules)/g}
>      >
>      > OK, but I want to have Grays, ie. Joules/kg:
>      >
>      > UnitConvert[dose, "Joules/kg"]
>      >
>      > Unfortunately output is not what I want:
>      > {UnitConvert[(1.1264*10^-12 Joules)/g, "Joules/kg"],
>      >  UnitConvert[(2.672*10^-13 Joules)/g, "Joules/kg"],
>      >  UnitConvert[(2.672*10^-13 Joules)/g, "Joules/kg"]}
>      >
>      >
>      > How to get Mathematica to convert J/g to J/kg?
>      > Mathematica 9.0.1 on linux.
>      >
>      > Regards, Mariusz
>      Why not just convert to Grays?
>      In[23]:= Quantity[5, "Joules"/"Grams"];
>      In[24]:= UnitConvert[%, "Grays"]
>      Out[24]= Quantity[5000, "Grays"]
>      If you wish to convert to J/Kg, you must use correct syntax:
>      In[25]:= UnitConvert[%, "Joules"/"Kilograms"]
>      Out[25]= Quantity[5000, ("Joules")/("Kilograms")]
>      --
>      Itai Seggev
>      Mathematica Algorithms R&D
>      217-398-0700
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:itais at wolfram.com


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