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To: mrsmith

Years of physics and engineering study in the 70s and 80s; I never had to use the slug. Pounds-mass and pounds-force. You just had to know that one lbf equals 32.174 ft-lbm/s2. The “slug” is a derived unit to make one pound force equal to one of something.


30 posted on 09/14/2019 7:35:22 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Thanks, very encouraging.
Weird that this unit suddenly appeared.


31 posted on 09/14/2019 7:41:07 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

“Years of physics and engineering study..”

Same here. In my case CGS, MKS and Imperial were all required. In addition, E and M is split with two sets of units. You get used to it after a while but it is a pain.


37 posted on 09/14/2019 8:22:48 PM PDT by Dennis M.
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