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(dated) A unit of work done when by a force of one poundal moves through a distance of one foot.
He […] made abstruse calculations as to the flight of balls off sloped club-faces, as to the foot-poundals of energy exercised by one muscle or the other, and as to theories of spin.
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Foot-poundal means (dated) A unit of work done when by a force of one poundal moves through a distance of one foot.
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He […] made abstruse calculations as to the flight of balls off sloped club-faces, as to the foot-poundals of energy exercised by one muscle or the other, and as to theories of spin.
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