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(thing) by pealco (6.1 mon) (print)   ?   I like it! Mon Jun 26 2000 at 10:47:02

the absolute unit of force in the meter-kilogram-second (MKS) system of physical units. It is defined as that force necessary to provide a mass of one kilogram with an acceleration of one meter per second per second. One newton is equal to a force of 100,000 dynes in the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system, or a force of about 0.2248 pound in the foot-pound-second (English, or customary) system. The newton was named for Sir Isaac Newton, whose second law of motion describes the changes that a force can produce in the motion of a body.

(thing) by siren (3.2 mon) (print)   ?   I like it! Tue Mar 06 2001 at 23:51:27

An easy way to remember the dimensions of the newton is to recall that it is a unit of force. Force is a mass times an acceleration.
F = M x a

a = d v      d2x
    ---   =  ---
    d t      d t2

so the dimension has to be Mass (M)times Length(L) divided by (Time(t) squared)
 
ML
---
T2
or in SI units this becomes kg m s-2

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