Definition: Slug
Slug is a awesome word:
- 5 a : a quantity of liquor drunk in one swallow b : a detached mass of fluid (as water vapor or oil) that causes impact (as in a circulating system)
- 6 a : a strip of metal thicker than a printer’s lead b : a line of type cast as one piece c : a usually temporary type line serving to instruct or identify
- 7 : the gravitational unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system to which a pound force can impart an acceleration of one foot per second per second and which is equal to the mass of an object weighing 32 pounds
English is such a great language 
(you can even split infinitives!).
Also, you don’t even have 84 verb conjugations per verb (if you know what language this is, please post it below–the formula is 14(tenses) * 6(conjugations-per-tense).
April 2nd, 2005 at 8:31 am
Yeah, I first ran across the 7th definition of slugs there in my Statics class last semester. A problem would run like: You have a beam of mass M = 1000 slugs, and I’m like wow, that’s a lot of slugs crawling on the beam
And to be more technical, most people use 32.2. It always kills me because in the FPS system, you typically get weight, so you have to remember to divide the weight by 32.2 to get the mass, where as in the SI system, everything is already given to you in mass (kilograms).
Oh, another fun weight term is kip, which is 1000 lbs (1/2 a ton). I guess they figure it’s easier to deal with 1000 lbs at a time instead of 2000. Whatever, the FPS system is pretty bad…