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Old December 18th 04, 01:26 AM
David CL Francis
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 at 03:36:14 in message
, Orval
Fairbairn wrote:

I seem to recall .002378 #m/ft3 as air density at STP.


That is in slugs per cubic foot. Both figures are correct. One in pounds
mass and the other in slugs which is a mass unit. Is the slug still
used? I used it a lot in my early days.

My old standard atmosphere data gives sea level at 0.07675 lb/cubic
foot.

Divide that by g (32.17 ft per second per second) gives 0.0023857 slugs
per cubic foot.
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