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What the Heck’s the Difference Between Pound-Force and Pound-Mass?

by Kevin C. on Mar 26, 2009

My fellow engineers, we are going to once and for all take a serious look at the difference between a pound-mass (lbm) and a pound-force (lbf). In a recent mechanical engineering project, I have had friends that tried to avoid working with “pounds” because of the ambiguity of it all; instead, they opted to convert [...]