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" <[email protected]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
