What's the difference between

• Diehard_89

  25 May 05, 19:56

  lb and lbs force?
• Ferret

  25 May 05, 20:23

  Do you have to ask such a difficult qns at this time of the night ?
  
  
• dragg

  25 May 05, 20:47

  difference spelling.
  
  
• ditzy

  25 May 05, 21:02

  One is a unit of weight, the other is a unit of force.
• gentlerock

  25 May 05, 23:07

  lb is mass (pound). Like kg in the metric system.
  
  lbf is weight (the force exerted by a pound of mass). Like N in the metric system.
  
  However, it a bit ambiguous because some people can refer to lbf at simply lb, etc.