In the rope access industry everything is rated in kn of force. We can directly equate this to 100 kg when looking at working load limits on the slings in which we use to hang off of. Everyone always says you don’t need to know why, you just need to know that it does. I would like a simple way of explaining it to the new people coming into my industry.
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kg is technically a unit of mass, not weight. Weight is force which is mass x acceleration. In this case acceleration is gravity which is 9.8m/s^2
1kg x 9.8m/s^2 = 9.8N ~ 10N
Confusingly what we mostly think about when we think of kilograms is the weight of an object with mass 1kg. Such an object would still have a mass of 1kg on the moon, but its weight would be lower.
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