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Originally Posted by TheMentat View Post
that got me thinking... did you guys & gals in the US have to learn Physics using Imperial Units?
I learned kilograms, m/s, f/s, slugs (the mass version of pounds which is force, not mass), pounds, Newtons, etc... I couldn't tell you diddley about "stones", but I've got what the US calls Standard/English and metric down.

Most of our word problems and work was done in metric units.
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