Definition:FPS/Power/Foot Pound Force per Second

Definition

The foot pound force per second is an FPS unit of power.

It is defined as being:

the amount of power required to apply $1$ pound force through a linear displacement of $1$ foot in $1$ second.

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foot pound force per second

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$\mathrm {ft} \, \mathrm {lbf} / \mathrm s$

The symbol for the foot pound force per second is $\mathrm {ft} \, \mathrm {lbf} / \mathrm s$.

The $\LaTeX$ code for $\mathrm {ft} \, \mathrm {lbf} / \mathrm s$ is \mathrm {ft} \, \mathrm {lbf} / \mathrm s .

The foot pound force per second is often presented with various hyphenations:

and so on.

Some sources use the term foot pound per second or foot-pound per second.