[time-nuts] Obscure terms

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

Slugs are mass. Pounds are force. A mass of one slug has a weight of 32.2
pounds (given nominal earth gravitational acceleration of 32.2 ft/sec^2)

There's also the Pound,Mass (lbm) which is a mass that weighs 1 pound.

Not so unusual, though. That 1 kg mass weighs 9.8 N, after all.



On 8/20/09 2:18 PM, "Morris Odell" <vilgotch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> 
> There is a unit of force in the old fps system called the slug. Then you get
> derivations such as work units of slug feet or loadings of slugs per square
> foot etc.
> 
> 
> Morris
> 
> 
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