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Pound force is the unit for force. Pound mass is the unit for mass. Colloquially people say pound.for both of them
by imtringued 4y ago
Pound force is the unit for force. Pound mass is the unit for mass. Colloquially people say pound.for both of them
- adastra22 4y agoThis is true colloquially. In engineering (or at least aerospace engineering, which is what I was studying) we more generally used slugs for mass in our calculations. Gravity/weight isn’t always constant after all, even on earth. Not universally. We still talked about a rocket’s “pounds of thrust.” But for things like angular momentum, center of gravity, etc. those were usually calculated with slugs.