Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
> Ken wrote:
>
>
>> *Any* decent high-school physics text should have made clear the
>> fundamental difference between weight -- e.g. pound-force -- and mass
>> -- e.g. pound -- units...  Whether the difference will be understood
>> by all the students is another matter, of course.
>
> What the hell ever happened to slugs? I remember being taught pounds
> for weight, and slugs for mass.

Slugs were taught at least as recently as 1993 at my high school. However,
they were taught as a "by the way" during the discussion of the difference
between mass and weight. The metric system was used for all problems.

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Kevin Gowen