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What is the US standard for mass?

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8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

In the US system one pound weight is 1/32.17 ft/sec^2 = 0.031 slugs. The slug is the mass unit. Thus 1 slug mass = 32.17 pounds weight. The value 32.17 is the acceleration of gravity in ft/sec/sec

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