09-25-2013, 07:18 PM
Hopefully someone steps in that's been in school long after I was.
This never really made sense to me but here goes.
The Newton is a metric measure of force , kilogram is a measure of mass. So 1 kg on earth with gravity of 9.81 m/sec2 exerts a force of 9.81 N downward.
So 1 N = 1/9.81 Kg force or 0.10197 Kg force = .22481 pounds force.
Clear as mud, right.
Kilograms seemed to get used as force or weight regular unless it was stated as mass, which you then had to multiply by gravitational acceleration to get weight or force.
Bet this cleared it right up for you Ed. Ha
This never really made sense to me but here goes.
The Newton is a metric measure of force , kilogram is a measure of mass. So 1 kg on earth with gravity of 9.81 m/sec2 exerts a force of 9.81 N downward.
So 1 N = 1/9.81 Kg force or 0.10197 Kg force = .22481 pounds force.
Clear as mud, right.
Kilograms seemed to get used as force or weight regular unless it was stated as mass, which you then had to multiply by gravitational acceleration to get weight or force.
Bet this cleared it right up for you Ed. Ha
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Greg
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