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Pressure in U.S. units

In U.S. units, the unit of force is the pound, and the unit of distance is the inch. The unit of pressure is therefore pounds per square inch, or p.s.i. (Note that the pound is not a unit of mass.)

Hint: More on pressure units can be found in the VIAS Encyclopedia.




Last Update: 2009-06-21