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Where did you get taught? I've heard it as 32 ft/sec^2 since I was a kid...

You youngin's arguing about where you were taught ignore that more important might be when you were taught. Your high school years might have been when I was already working on my second marriage and buying a house. And therefore, ft/second^2, bitches.

...I'm still in highschool, and I'm on ft/sec^2.

I find that to be...disappointing. I mean, is there a U. S. high schooler today that couldn't handle a metric measurement? When I was in high school we were trying to get there with dual measurement road signs (km/miles) and metric soft drink bottles. Then Reagen got into office, viewed the metric system as some sort of communist plot, and axed the Bureau of Metric Whatever back in the 80s. So we had an excuse.

These days I'd think it almost unconscionable to teach kids scientific measurements in anything but metric.

I dunno. We've used metric in other sciences, and I've only encountered acceleration in passing as of yet.

Maybe we'll get metric units in Physics.

For your sake, I hope you do.

I prefer miles, feet, and farenheight for every day use, but for science metric is king.

Strange. Since high school, I've always heard m/s^2. United States, mid Atlantic region.

US, high school in the south, 9.81 m/s^2 for life! I have never heard any physics in feet...

US East, North Atlantic, for comparison. As I said in grandparent, ft/s^2.

Same here, and in fact I'm tutoring someone whose physics book is right here...

It's all labeled in ft/sec^2

Ft in high school, m in college ...

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