Newton

(noun)

in the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one meter per second per second; symbol: N

Related Terms

Examples of Newton in the following topics:

  • SI Units of Pressure

    • The SI unit of pressure is the pascal (Pa), which is equal to one Newton per meter squared (N/m2).
    • The unit of pressure in the SI system is the pascal (Pa), defined as the force of one newton per square meter:

  • Early Ideas about Atoms

    • The concept of the atom was revisited and elaborated upon by many scientists and philosophers, including Galileo, Newton, Boyle, and Lavoisier.

  • Indeterminacy and Probability Distribution Maps

    • The bullet follows Newton's laws of motion, in whichthe present determines the future.
    • Newton's laws are deterministic.

  • Temperature

    • The dawn of the 18th century saw great change in thermometers, thanks to the work of Isaac Newton, Anders Celsius, and Daniel Fahrenheit.
    • Isaac Newton proposed a thermometer with a scale of 12 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water.

  • Properties of Waves and Light

    • Young's experiment, performed in the early 1800's, played a vital part in the acceptance of the wave theory of light, superseding the corpuscular theory of light proposed by Isaac Newton, which had been the accepted model of light propagation in the 17th and 18th centuries.

  • Converting from One Unit to Another