gravity wrote:


please read the NIST publications which define the Avoirdupois pound in
terms of kilograms. this is not debateable since NIST is *the* authority in
the US.

The NIST isn't the authority on the laws of physics. One of the most
basic of which is F=MA, if you use pounds for mass in that formula you
get the wrong answer. Nothing that NIST says will change that.

200 lbs = 6.25 slugs * 32 ft/sec^2. Using pounds, the formula won't
work any other way.

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Chris W
KE5GIX

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