From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 08:29:56 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Spike writes>
>>Then go ahead and use the pound force as
>>the amount of force needed to accelerate
>>one slug one foot per second^2.
>
>
> So it's absolutely *definite* that the pound
> force is the weight (force) of one pound
> against Earth's gravity?
Yes, but think of it as the force needed to
hoist 1/32 of a slug in a 1 G field.
> I am stubborn, and I am old.
You arent that old Lee. Get unstubborn.
> Would you *please* say how many pounds (as
> force) is equivalent to one newton?
NO! Do not convert from a good system to
a bad one. Think metric!
>
> Would you please have pity on me,
No pity!
and have
> mercy upon my utter humiliation,
No Mercy! No humiliation! Well, other than
the humiliation that attends those who slay
their sustenence with a big bumply club and
drag it back to their caves. {8^D
and tell
> me how many foot-pounds (force times
> distance) equal one joule (i.e. one
> newton-meter)?
Dont converrt. Estimate the height in
meters, the mass in Kg and work from there.
Please save my sanity,
> or what little is left of it.
Lee, your sanity is not in danger bud.
Think metric. spike
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