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Originally Posted by RallyJeff

Pounds can be used for force or mass. If you're measuring force in pounds, you use slugs for mass. If you're using pounds for mass, you use poundals for force:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundal

This weirdness (plus the fact that a cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 pounds as opposed to some sensible round number) are the two big reasons why I prefer working in metric.

Interesting, and I thought slugs were uncommon. Never heard of a 'Poundal' before. Very cool.

But yeah, can we just use metric please? Its just easier to keep track of...