I find Newtons to be less confusing than poundals, slugs, poundmass and poundforce.
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It's funny, though. Every doctor I know has an intuitive feel for metric weights in kg. But list a height in cm, and we all reach for our calculators to see how tall that is.
I always spoke to one of our English surgeons about how many stones the patient weighed. He always got a chuckle out of that.
Whats the question? Did the first post get deleted?
A kilopascal is 1000 regular pascals.
Bill D
Kilopascal is a unit of measure designed solely to scare you into thinking your tires are going flat.
This happens when the digital gauge which normally displays "32.0 PSI" starts displaying "220 KPa". In both cases, the unit and the decimal point are far too small to see in a dimly-lit garage. By the time you figure out what's going on, you've turned on the compressor, pulled out the hose, and pumped up the tire to 46PSI or so. DAMHIKT.
The gauge in question now has a double layer of duct tape over the button that changes units.
Hi Rod
The only place poundals, slugs, pound force and pound mass are to be found is in textbooks. They are arcane. PSI is found and understood everywhere in north america. Newtons, not so much.