Definition:FPS/Force/Pound Force

Definition
The pound force is a FPS unit of force.

It is defined as being:


 * The gravitational force exerted on a mass of one avoirdupois pound on the surface of Earth.

In this context, the value of the standard acceleration due to gravity is used, taken to be $32.174049 \, \mathrm {ft} \, \mathrm s^{-2}$.