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acted on by a force, for example friction. Galileo's idea that force is needed to change motion rather than to sustain it, further improved upon by Isaac Beeckman...

net force is the sum of all the forces acting on an object. For example, if two forces are acting upon an object in opposite directions, and one force is...

a straight line, except insofar as it is acted upon by a force. At any instant of time, the net force on a body is equal to the body's acceleration multiplied...

Served with the unit from 1979 to 1986. Wrote the book Inside Delta Force, upon which the television series The Unit is based. He served in Operation...

accelerating in the forward direction may perceive they are acted upon by a force moving them into the direction of the backrest of their seats for instance...

In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial (or fictitious) force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect...

Spaatz became the first chief of staff of the Air Force upon the establishment of the United States Air Force. Four chiefs of staff would go on to serve as...

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (/njuːˈkæsəl/ new-KASS-əl, RP: /ˈnjuːkɑːsəl/ NEW-kah-səl), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear...

respectively (usually measured in amperes), The double line integration sums the force upon each element of wire 1 due to the magnetic field of each element of wire...

In graphonomics, Axial pen force is the component of the normal pen force that is parallel to the pen. It is dependent upon pen tilt. In the special case...

with gravity acting upon it. Suppose that when the rock is lowered into water, it displaces water of weight 3 newtons. The force it then exerts on the...

years it has also been awarded to the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force upon retirement. Cases of the award of this decoration to an individual who...

law themselves, or aiding/abetting other fugitives; and must not use force upon an officer of the law performing a legal duty. In Colorado, the make-my-day...

of reference physicists speak of the gravitational field generating a force upon the object, but for deep theoretic reasons, physicists now consider the...

velocity of the head when the hammer was struck, resulting in tremendous force upon impact. Poleaxe Swiss arms and armour Oakeshott, Ewart (1980). European...

Force (Pashto: د هوايي ځواک عمومي قومندان, Dari: فرماندهی کل نیروی هوایی) also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Air Force and the Afghan Air Force,...

sovereignty, and has since been expanded to involve its police force and civil defence force. Upon enlistment, male citizens and second-generation permanent...

in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective...

determined by the force of the expanding gases in the barrel upon the gun (recoil force), which is equal and opposite to the force upon the ejecta. It is...

the haft as a lever to multiply the force upon the blade, allowing wood to be torn apart with remarkably little force applied to the haft. By twisting one...