The Big Mo, Force and Momentum

Example 1: Pounds to Newtons

The Question: Did you know this? You can ask Google lots of things in the search field. Let’s practice.

Remember that my favorite airplane is the AIRBUS 330-300, long-haul aircraft:

About the AIRBUS A-330-300

This airplane uses either two Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, or Rolls-Royce jet engines each with an average thrust of about 300,000 N (300 kN).

“Thrust” is the aviation word for “force.”

How many pounds of thrust is that per engine? Type into the search engine’s (haha…“engine” See what I did there?):

google search bar

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The Answer:

What you’ll see is the following, which you can play with for other conversions of all sorts of things.

google result of a conversion change

So, 300,000 N is the same as 67,442 pounds.