Force

FORCE:

“Force is an agent that changes or tends to change the state of rest or uniform motion of a body”.

• It is a vector quantity.

• It is represented by symbol $F$.

• Its SI unit is $kg \thinspace m/s^2$ , collectively known as Newton (N).

NEWTON:

“One Newton $(1 \thinspace N)$ is the amount of force that can produce $1 \thinspace ms^{-2}$ acceleration in $1 \thinspace kg$ mass”.