What is the relationship between ounces and pounds?

Answer 1

Ounces and pounds are units in any of several systems of measurement that are now obsolete except for:

• US Customary System of weights
• Troy System of weights

The US Customary pound is either a mass of exactly 0.453 592 37 kg or a force equal to the weight of that mass on Earth. If the pound is a mass, then the poundal is the force that will make it accelerate at one foot per second per second, but if it is a force than the slug is a mass that it will accelerate at one foot per second per second. And if you apply a pound force to a pound weight it will accelerate at a convenient 32.17 feet per second per second. Be careful of which you mean when you are designing Mars landers. Also, be careful not to divide an impulse by pound weight instead of a pound mass, because you might accidentally get specific impulse in seconds instead of feet per second.

The Troy pound is a mass of 373.2417216 grams exactly, which is divided into twelve ounces.

Try not to confuse these with each other, or with the Avoirdupois pound, Imperial Standard Pound, Tower pound, Merchants' pound, London pound, Roman libra (divided into twelve unciae), Byzantine litra, French livre, German and Austrian Pfund, Russian funt, Skålpund, Jersey pound, or Trone pound. Most of those are divided into twelve ounces, except when it is fourteen or sixteen.

Answer 2

16 ounces = 1 pound.1 ounce = 0.0625 pounds.

Answer 3

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