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I was going to jump in and say that the pound is also a unit of mass. But it turns out its both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force) https://en.wikiped
by bloat 9y ago
I was going to jump in and say that the pound is also a unit of mass. But it turns out its both.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
- braythwayt 9y agoAnd then there's the foot-pound, a unit of torque much prized by the owners of muscle cars until eclectric vehicles went from obscure to early-adopter status.
- platz 9y agoAlso, assuming we're talking about rest mass, since without that distinction the word mass is ambiguous in accelerated contexts.
- uxp 9y agoOr just general torque in the United States. Electric vehicles still have tires that are joined to wheels which are fastened to an axle by the tightening of a nut on a threaded stud. For safety, we generally state that the nut should have X foot-pounds of torque applied to ensure it doesn't fall off. Unless Tesla et al. have suddenly decided to use a more universal standard in the states, I'd assume they still publish that value in ft/lbs, since 98% of tools designed to measure these things owned in the U.S.A. have this unit on them.
- glandium 9y agoWell, there's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram-force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram-force