So I was looking at another answer and it indicated that polar bears have a bite of 1200PSI.
This seems crazy, even a small force crushing something between the edges of two teeth would generate a huge PSI value.
Why do they use PSI, shouldn’t it be lbs-force (well OK it should be newtons, but that’s another issue)?
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PSI is just a unit of measure for pressure. The SI version would be Newtons/meter^2, or Pascal (From P=F/A). I think that would be kg-force/meters^2. It’s just not common to say kg-force/meters^2. Plus the values aren’t understandable to humans as easy as PSI.
That’s why we use “atm” or PSI instead of Pascal. 1atm is 10325 pa. Your news anchor ain’t gonna say “lmao, we have 9064 pascal’s today.”
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