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- Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. [e]
- Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
Subtopics
- Mechanical engineering [r]: The branch of engineering concerned with the utilisation of the basic laws of mathematics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and system dynamics in order to create unique solutions to physical problems. [e]
- Civil engineering [r]: A broad field of engineering dealing with the design, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures, including roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and water supply and sewage systems. [e]
- Chemical engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products [e]
- Acceleration [r]: The increase of an objects velocity (or speed) per unit time. [e]
- Classical mechanics [r]: The science of mechanics, which is concerned with the set of physical laws governing and mathematically describing the motions of bodies and aggregates of bodies geometrically distributed within a certain boundary under the action of a system of forces. [e]
- Dyne [r]: Force in cgs system; symbol: dyn; 1 dyn = 10−5 N. [e]
- Force [r]: Vector quantity that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its application. [e]
- Gravitation [r]: The tendency of objects with mass to accelerate toward each other. [e]
- Kilogram-force [r]: A unit of force which will accelerate 1 kilogram of mass to 9.80665 m/s2, the standard average acceleration due to gravity on Earth's surface (referred to as gn). [e]
- Mass [r]: The total amount of a substance, or alternatively, the total energy of a substance. [e]
- Newton [r]: SI derived unit of force, named after Isaac Newton, equal to the amount of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one metre per second per second. [e]
- Normal force [r]: The perpendicular force with which two objects press against one another. [e]
- Pound-force [r]: A measurement unit of force which will accelerate 1 pound of mass to 9.80665 m/s2 (≈ 32.17405 ft/s2), the standard average acceleration due to gravity on Earth's surface (referred to as gn). [e]
- Kilogram-force per square centimeter [r]: The kilogram-force per square centimeter (symbol: kgf/cm2 or often just kg/cm2) is a unit of pressure defined as the force exerted by one kilogram-force on one square centimeter. [e]
- Comité International des Poids et Mesures [r]: An international committee set up to promote uniformity in units of measurement. [e]
- Nobuyoshi Muto [r]: Commanding general, Kwangtung Army, (28 Jul 1926 - 26 Aug 1927), (8 Aug 1932 - 27 Jul 1933); Inspector General of Military Education {26 Aug 1927 - 26 May 1932) [e]
- Normal force [r]: The perpendicular force with which two objects press against one another. [e]
- Weight [r]: The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity. [e]
- Foucault pendulum [r]: A pendulum demonstrating the Earth's rotation as it maintains its plane of motion independent of movement of its suspension attached to planet Earth. [e]