 | Victoria and Albert museum - 1878 - 332 pages
...dyne). The dyne is the most convenient unit of force ; it is that force which can in one second give to a mass of one gramme, a velocity of one centimetre per second. But that is not a matter which is essential to our present discussion. You may take what unit you please... | |
 | Evan William Small - Earth - 1894 - 296 pages
...unit of acceleration. In the CGS system the unit of force is that force which generates per second in a mass of one gramme a velocity of one centimetre per second. A force is said to be constant if it produces equal accelerations in equal times. Such a constant force... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Dynamics - 1895 - 377 pages
...Centimetre- Gramme- ~ - _Second system of units, the absolute unit of force produces in one second, in a mass of one gramme, a velocity of one centimetre per second. The numerical value of g in this system is 981'4. aj *. £ ^ 11^ -± C.-G.-S. system. § 107. Forces... | |
 | Azariah Thomas Lincoln - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical - 1918 - 568 pages
...used by chemists. The unit of force is that force which produces in unit mass unit acceleration. In the CGS system the unit of force is the dyne and is defined as that force which acting on a body of unit mass produces an acceleration of one centimeter... | |
 | Dorothy Mabel Turner - Science - 1927 - 208 pages
...placed in air a unit of distance from an equal quantity of the same sign repels it with unit force. In the CGS system the unit of force is the dyne, and is that force which produces in a mass of I gramme an acceleration of i centimetre per second per second.... | |
 | Dorothy Mabel Turner - Science - 1927 - 208 pages
...placed in air a unit of distance from an equal quantity of the same sign repels it with unit force. In the CGS system the unit of force is the dyne, and is that force which produces in a mass of 1 gramme an acceleration of 1 centimetre per second per second.... | |
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... give a mass of one gramme a velocity of one centimetre per second. 