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Pound and kilogram are same thing at different scales. The sooner US will abandon Imperial scale, the better.
by drran 7y ago
Pound and kilogram are same thing at different scales.
The sooner US will abandon Imperial scale, the better.
- s5reahare5hba 7y agoGets complicated because rocket thrust is measured in Newtons but often converted to Pounds, 1 Newton = 0.22 Pounds of thrust
- p_l 7y agoWelcome to the confusing short hands of pound-force and kg-force! It's huge part of why Newtons were used in SI instead of gram-force in CGS. Still persists in thrust calculations, especially as metric ton-force, due to ease of calculating TWR and related.