Spencer Heath Archive

Item 32

Penciled by Heath on notepad paper.

Winter 1956-1957?

A dyne is the metric unit of force which, acting for one second against the inertia of a mass of one gram is sufficient to accelerate the mass (from zero velocity) to a velocity of one centimeter per second. An erg is the metric unit of energy or work — the amount of energy expended or work done by a dyne acting through a distance of one centimeter: a dyne-centimeter.

An erg second is a dyne-centimeter-second, an erg of energy expended or work done during one second of time. It is the unit rate of energy employed to measure any other quantity of energy per unit of time. When this is..

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