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  2. Foot–pound–second system of units - Wikipedia

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    The electrostatic and electromagnetic systems are derived from units of length and force, mainly. As such, these are ready extensions of any system of containing length, mass, time. Stephen Dresner [7] gives the derived electrostatic and electromagnetic units in both the footpoundsecond and foot–slug–second systems. In practice, these ...

  3. Slug (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Systems of measure either define mass and derive a force unit or define a base force and derive a mass unit [1] (cf. poundal, a derived unit of force in a mass-based system). A slug is defined as a mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s 2 when a net force of one pound (lbf) is exerted on it.

  4. Poundal - Wikipedia

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    Since a pound of force (pound force) accelerates a pound of mass at 32.174 049 ft/s 2 (9.80665 m/s 2; the acceleration of gravity, g), we can scale down the unit of force to compensate, giving us one that accelerates 1 pound mass at 1 ft/s 2 rather than at 32.174 049 ft/s 2; and that is the poundal, which is approximately 1 ⁄ 32 pound force.

  5. Force - Wikipedia

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    The pound-force provides an alternative unit of mass: one slug is the mass that will accelerate by one foot per second squared when acted on by one pound-force. [58] An alternative unit of force in a different footpoundsecond system, the absolute fps system, is the poundal , defined as the force required to accelerate a one-pound mass at ...

  6. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    Symbol Meaning SI unit of measure magnetic vector potential: tesla meter (T⋅m) area: square meter (m 2) amplitude: meter: atomic mass number: unitless acceleration: meter per second squared (m/s 2) magnetic flux density

  7. Foot-poundal - Wikipedia

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    The foot-poundal (symbol: ft-pdl) is a unit of energy, introduced in 1879, that is part of the Absolute English system of units, which itself is a coherent subsystem of the footpoundsecond system. [1] The foot-poundal is equal to 1/32.174049 that of the more commonly used foot-pound force.

  8. Mass flow rate - Wikipedia

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    Mass flow rate is defined by the limit [3] [4] ˙ = =, i.e., the flow of mass through a surface per time .. The overdot on ˙ is Newton's notation for a time derivative.Since mass is a scalar quantity, the mass flow rate (the time derivative of mass) is also a scalar quantity.

  9. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The talbot (T) is a unit of luminous energy equal to one lumen-second (1 lm⋅s). The einstein (E) has two conflicting definitions. The original is a unit of energy, equal to the energy in one mole (1 mol) of photons. The second is a unit of amount of photons, equal to one mole (1 mol) of photons.