Owner's manual
Table Of Contents
- Material covered
- The HP 49G documentation set
- Chapter 1
- Entering commands
- Keyboard entry
- Subject-specific menus
- Displaying system Flags
- Setting and clearing Flags
- User Flags
- Chapter 3
- Command line operations
- Activating the command line
- Positioning the cursor
- Helpful commands and sub-menus
- Selecting characters
- Copy, cut, and paste
- Editing the command Line
- Command Line information
- Chapter 4
- Using the stack
- Example stack calculations
- Chapter 5
- Matrices and linear algebra
- Matrix Writer operations
- Advanced matrix operations
- Creating special matrices
- Assembling matrices
- To assemble a matrix by rows From a series of vectors
- To assemble a matrix by columns From a series of vectors
- To assemble a matrix with a particular diagonal From a vector
- To assemble a matrix From a sequence oF elements
- To disassemble a matrix into its elements
- To disassemble a matrix into row vectors
- To disassemble a matrix into column vectors
- To extract the vector oF diagonals From a matrix
- To insert one or more new rows into a matrix
- To insert one or more new columns into an array
- To extract a particular row From an array
- To extract a particular column From an array
- Swapping rows and columns
- Extracting and replacing elements oF matrices
- More matrix arithmetic
- To change the sign of each element in a matrix
- To multiply a matrix and vector
- To divide an array by a square matrix
- To combine two real matrices into a complex matrix
- To split a complex matrix into two real matrices
- To conjugate each element of a complex matrix
- To extract the matrix of real parts from a complex matrix
- To extract the matrix of imaginary parts From a complex matrix
- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- To compute the eigenvalues For a square matrix
- To compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors For a square matrix
- To compute the singular values oF a matrix
- To decompose or factor a matrix
- Overview of the Units application
- Unit objects
- Converting units
- Calculating with units
- Working with temperature units
- Chapter 7 Constants Library
- To view the constants library
- To copy a constant to the stack or history
- To include a constant in an algebraic expression
- Chapter 8 Number bases
- Entering and displaying binary integers
- To set the base
- To set the wordsize
- To recall the current wordsize
- To enter a binary integer
- To add, subtract, multiply, or divide two binary integers
- To find the negative of a binary integer
- To convert a binary integer to a diFFerent number base
- To convert a binary integer to a real number
- To convert a real number to a binary integer
- Using Boolean operators
- Manipulating bits and bytes
- List Processing
- Applying a Function or program to a List
- List Manipulations
- Chapter 10
- Advanced plotting options Labelling and relocating the axes
- Plotting programs
- Plotting range vs. display range
- To check the current size oF PICT
- To use computed values for plotting or display ranges
- Saving and Restoring Plots
- Chapter 11
- How memory is structured
- Accessing port contents
- Backup objects
- Using data in backup objects
- How the HP 49G manages memory
- To list a port’s contents, and find Free memory
- Chapter 12
- Date and time arithmetic Date and time Formats
- Date and time tools
- Calculating with dates
- Calculating with times
- Chapter 13 Customization
- Creating menus
- User mode
- Chapter 14
- Computer Algebra Commands
- Alphabetical command list
- 1 q
- Index
Converting units
The HP 49G provides two commands for converting imit objects from one
unit of measurement to another:
® CONVERT
® DBASE.
Tire CONVERT command—which requires two arguments—can be used to
convert one type of imit to any other similar miit. The DBASE conunand—
which requires only one argument—is used to convert a imit object to its
equivalent SI base imit: feet to metres, knots to metres per second, and so
on.
The following examples illustrate how to convert units if you are working
in algebraic mode. The steps to follow if you are working in RPN mode are
given at the end of the procedure.
To convert from one unit to another
1. Press 0 iUNITgl TOOLS CONVERT.
2. Enter the imit object with the units that you want to convert.
Example: 12_m
3. Press 0Q.
4. Enter a imit object with the imits you want the first imit object
converted to.
Example: l„ft
It does not matter what value you give to the number part of this imit
object.
5. Press (ENJR).
Example result: 39.3700787402_ft
In RPN mode: follow steps 2, 4, and 1.
If you are converting an angle measurement to imits of the same
type as your current angle measurement setting, you can omit the
unit expression at step 4 above.
For example, if your current angle measurement setting is radians,
you can convert 1000_arcmin to radians by entering
CONVERT(1000_arcmin, 1) and pressing
(ENTER).
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Unit objects