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  • Dagrothus@reddthat.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    9 months ago

    No, pounds in the traditional usage refer to lbf, or weight. If you stand on a scale, it measures the force you’re exerting on the scale, which is absolutely distinct from mass because the exact same scale would show a different value on Mt Everest despite you not losing any mass. Every practical use will be measuring lbf. Ie PSI, or pounds per square inch, is clearly referring to force over an area, not mass.

    1 lbm weighs 1 lbf on earth, which implies that accelerating a 1lbm object at a rate of 32.2ft/s2 requires 1lbf.

    Engineers are the few types of people that actually use lbm and slugs. Sensible ones will prefer to just use metric.