• The footpoundsecond system (FPS system) is a system of units built on three fundamental units: the foot for length, the (avoirdupois) pound for either...
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  • The foot-pound force (symbol: ft⋅lbf, ft⋅lbf, or ft⋅lb ) is a unit of work or energy in the engineering and gravitational systems in United States customary...
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    United States customary units form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and most U.S. territories, since being standardized...
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  • metre–tonne–second (MTS) system of units was invented in France (hence the derived unit names sthène and pièze) where it became the legal system between 1919...
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  • people Metre–tonne–second system of units United States customary units Footpoundsecond system of units "Centimetre-gram-second system | physics". Encyclopedia...
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  • some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the footpoundsecond system. Pound-force should not be confused with pound-mass...
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  • The metre, kilogram, second system of units, also known more briefly as MKS units or the MKS system, is a physical system of measurement based on the...
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  • The poundal (symbol: pdl) is a unit of force, introduced in 1877, that is part of the Absolute English system of units, which itself is a coherent subsystem...
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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...
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    system of units. Two years later James Thomson, older brother of William Thomson, introduced the term poundal as a coherent unit of force in the Foot–pound–second...
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  • system. Systems of measure either define mass and derive a force unit or define a base force and derive a mass unit (cf. poundal, a derived unit of force...
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  • A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating...
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    pound the primary unit of mass. In all the systems, the fundamental unit is the pound, and all other units are defined as fractions or multiples of it...
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    the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) in 1873 and the footpoundsecond systems (FPS) of units in 1875. The International System of Units (SI) was designed in...
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  • Roman systems of units. Various standards have applied to English units at different times, in different places, and for different applications. Use of the...
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    version of the system is closely related to the English troy system of weights, the pound and grain being exactly the same in both. It divides a pound into...
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    of new units and systems. Systems of units vary from country to country. Some of the different systems include the centimetre–gram–second, footpound–second...
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    metre per second IEEE Standard Letter Symbols for Units of Measurement (SI Units, Customary Inch-Pound Units, and Certain Other Units) (Revision of IEEE Std...
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  • system (versus the metric system). The standard system includes the standard units of the foot, the pound (mass), and the gallon. The United Kingdom and...
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    The newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as 1   kg ⋅ m/s 2 {\displaystyle 1\ {\text{kg}}\cdot...
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  • The international yard and pound are two units of measurement that were the subject of an agreement among representatives of six nations signed on 1 July...
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  • to game, but a Hammer unit is usually defined as a sixteenth of a foot (16 Hammer units = 1 foot). This means that 1 Hammer unit is equal to exactly 19...
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    units: for example, the livre (pound) became exactly 500 g. After 1837, the metric system was reintroduced and progressively became the only system of...
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    radian per second (symbol: rad⋅s−1 or rad/s) is the unit of angular velocity in the International System of Units (SI). The radian per second is also the...
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    symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI). It is equal to the amount of work done when a force of one newton displaces...
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    perceived advantage of such a system was its use in some aspects of mental arithmetic, as it afforded many factors and hence fractions of a pound such as tenths...
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    The units of measurement of ancient Rome were generally consistent and well documented. The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural:...
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  • needed. In English Engineering Units, the pound-mass and the pound-force are distinct base units, and Newton's Second Law of Motion takes the form F = m...
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  • {\displaystyle P=} Power in Horsepower (hp) M = {\displaystyle M=} Torque in Pound-force foot (lbf·ft) n = {\displaystyle n=} Crankshaft speed in Revolutions per...
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  • interest) are shown and expressed in terms of the corresponding SI unit. Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example...
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