slug (mass)
The slug is an English unit of mass. It is a mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s² when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. Therefore a slug has a mass of 32.17405 pound-mass or 14.5939 kg.[Shigley, Joseph E. and Mischke, Charles R. Mechanical Engineering Design, Sixth ed. McGraw Hill, 2006. ISBN 0-07-365939-8.]
The slug is part of a subset of coherent units known as the gravitational foot-pound-second system (FPS), one of several such specialized systems of mechanical units developed in the late 19th and the 20th century.
The slug was first used in 1902 by Arthur Mason Worthington (1852–1916) in Dynamics of Rotation (OED), but it didn't see any significant use until decades later. A 1928 textbook says: "No name has yet been given to the unit of mass and, in fact, as we have developed the theory of dynamics no name is necessary. Whenever the mass, m, appears in our formulae, we substitute the ratio of the convenient force-acceleration pair (w/g), and measure the mass in lbs. per ft./sec.² or in grams per cm./sec.²".[Noel Charlton Little, College Physics, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928, p. 165.]
Another name for this unit in early literature is the geepound.[http://www.unit2unit.eu/lb_gee.html]
The unit slinch (derived from the words slug-inch [Miscellaneous]) is an inch version of the slug (1 slinch = 1 lbf·s²/in = 12 slugs).[Slug - DiracDelta Science & Engineering Encyclopedia] The unit blob (bl) is also an inch version of the slug (1 lbf·s²/in).[Robert L. Norton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Machine Design: An Integrated Approach, Third Edition, Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-048190-8 ]
Source: Mechanical Measurements[Beckwith, Thomas G., Marangoni, Roy D., et al. Mechanical Measurements, Fifth ed. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0-201-56947-7.]
External links
 Newtons, Slugs and Kilograms Force for a detailed mathematical explanation
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