What is a newton?

Answer 1

A thief that lived down Cannon Road.

Answer 2

A Newton is a unit of force (or weight) in the metric system, equal to 0.22481 pounds in the imperial system.

Mass and weight are not the same, but most people just think of them as the same thing and use either pounds or kilograms to measure it. Technically, what people really mean by a 1 kilogram weight is the weight of a 1 kilogram mass on Earth, which is 9.8 Newtons. That same 1 kilogram mass would weight 1.6 Newtons on the Moon. But people never say it that way. They say that 1 kilogram weights 1/6 of a kilogram on the Moon. That is so confusing and self contradictory! Saying that 1 kilogram only weights 1/6 of a kilogram. And so confusing! But it is what most people do. They also say 1 pound weighs 1/6 of a pound on the Moon. Equally confusing and technically wrong in a different way. In the imperial system, mass is technically measured in slugs. One slug weighs 32 pounds on Earth and 5.3 pounds on the Moon.

So it is triply confusing because kilograms measure mass and pounds measure weight, which just confuses people even more about the difference between mass and weight when they say that 1 kilogram equals 2.2 pounds.

Answer 3

one newton will cause a body with mass of 1kg to accellerate at 1 metre per second. this is in a perfect system where there would be no friction or air resistance however. there are 9.81 newtons per kilogram

Answer 4

Measurement of force causing an object to accelerate

Answer 5

The SI measurement of force.

Answer 6

measure of force

Answer 7

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