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Re: poundal vs. poundee



RIGHT! Clarence has it exactly correct!
JE

Clarence Bennett wrote:

My dictiopnary seems to give the slug as the mass to go with the pound
force in one system, and the pound mass goes with the poundal force in
another, each for acceleration of 1 ft. / sec.

Pick out a system of measures, and then argue definitions, please.

Clarence Bennett
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan 48309
248 370 3418
http://www3.acs.oakland.edu/physics/staff_info/Bennett.htm