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nouna unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes
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nounEnglish mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
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- g (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
- pa a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
- pascal a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
- halley English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
- leibniz German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
- newtonian a follower of Isaac Newton
- newtonian of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his science
- pdl a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons
- gottfried wilhelm leibnitz German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
- coriolis force (physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced