User talk:Peaktop

When time permits, I'd like to offer a comprehensive rewrite of Foot-pound-second system (incl. a link to the "gc" disambiguation page).

I think that, by using "lb" without the modifier "m" or "f," the page leaves the ambiguity between pound-mass and pound-force that it intended to resolve.

I'd also like to add more recent references, e.g.:


 * Chilton, Thomas H. "American Engineering System of Units," in "Systems of Units, National and International Aspects," C.F. Kayan (Ed.). AAAS Publication 57. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, 1959. (See, e.g., http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/534617&referer=brief_results)


 * Klinkenberg, Adrian. "The American Engineering System of Units and Its Dimensional Constant gc." Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 61(4):53-59. 1969.


 * NIST Publication 811. 2008 Edition. (available at http://www.nist.gov/pml/pubs/sp811/index.cfm)

Perhaps a better idea would be to write a new gc page.

Regards, All.