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Old 03-23-2005 | 04:27 PM
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Sylvan
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Default RE: What is the best way to get kinetic energy II

I use pound-seconds because that is the way the ballistics program I use lists it.
Interesting, I've never seen momentum referred to in pound/seconds. I wonder why they do that seeing that momentum = mass x velocity and the pound isn't a unit of mass and seconds aren't units of velocity. Slug ft/sec or kilogram meters/sec if you like the metric system are typically what you see in physics/mechanics. Technically what they use is incorrect. I didn't check your values but they appeared to be values that made sense as slug ft/sec. Anyway it isn't a big deal I just have never seen it.
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