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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Note N. 222 — SECTION XXVII.

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Note 222, pp. 275, 329, 357. The foot-pound, or unit of mechanical force established by Mr. Joule, is the force that would raise one pound weight of matter to the height of one foot; or it is the impetus or force generated by a body of one pound weight falling by its gravitation through the height of one foot.

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