Force Quantity and Units

Force is a derived quantity. Definitions are provided in namespace force. The base quantity defines derived quantity type NewtonClass, and Variable Force, Constant ForceConstant, and a VariableVector ForceVector.

The Dimension of Force is $(1, 1, -2, 0, 0, 0, 0)$ .

Force defines the following Units:

Newton (prefixable)
Dyne
KilogramForce
Atomic

The default unit is Newton (N). The default name in the base quantity is `force', and the default symbol is `f'. The derived quantities do not overwrite these values.

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