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Mechanical Units

The SimMechanics environment accepts any mixture of meters-kilograms-seconds or MKS (SI), cgs, and English units.

QuantityMKS (SI)cgsEnglish
Lengthmeter (m)centimeter (cm)inch (in),
foot (ft)
Timesecond (s)second (s)second (s)
Masskilogram (kg)gram (g)slug (slug)
Velocitymeter/second (m/s)centimeter/second
(cm/s)
inch/second (in/sec),
foot/second (ft/sec)
Acceleration
(Gravity)
meter/second2
(m/s2)
centimeter/second2 (cm/s2)inch/second2 (in/sec2),
foot/second2 (ft/sec2)
Forcenewton (N)dyne (dyn)pound (lb)
Angleradian (rad),
degree (deg)
radian (rad),
degree (deg)
radian (rad),
degree (deg)
Inertiakilogram-meter2 (kg-m2)gram-centimeter2 (g-cm2)slug-foot2 (slug-ft2)
Angular velocityradian/second (rad/s),
degree/second (deg/s)
radian/second (rad/s),
degree/second (deg/s)
radian/second (rad/sec),
degree/second (deg/sec)
Angular accelerationradian/second2 (rad/s2),
degree/second2 (deg/s2)
radian/second2 (rad/s2),
degree/second2 (deg/s2)
radian/second2 (rad/sec2),
degree/second2 (deg/sec2)
Torquenewton-meter (N-m)dyne-centimeter (dyn-cm)pound-foot (lb-ft)

  


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