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  2. Force - Wikipedia

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    Resolving force vectors into components of a set of basis vectors is often a more mathematically clean way to describe forces than using magnitudes and directions. [30] This is because, for orthogonal components, the components of the vector sum are uniquely determined by the scalar addition of the components of the individual vectors ...

  3. Vector (mathematics and physics) - Wikipedia

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    In the natural sciences, a vector quantity (also known as a vector physical quantity, physical vector, or simply vector) is a vector-valued physical quantity. [9] [10] It is typically formulated as the product of a unit of measurement and a vector numerical value (), often a Euclidean vector with magnitude and direction.

  4. Net force - Wikipedia

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    After vector addition "at the location of ", the net force is translated to the appropriate line of application, where it becomes the resultant force . The procedure is based on decomposition of all forces into components for which the lines of application (pale dotted lines) intersect at one point (the so-called pole, arbitrarily set at the ...

  5. Resultant force - Wikipedia

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    After vector addition "at the location of ", the net force is translated to the appropriate line of application, whereof it becomes the resultant force . The procedure is based on a decomposition of all forces into components for which the lines of application (pale dotted lines) intersect at one point (the so-called pole, arbitrarily set at ...

  6. Four-force - Wikipedia

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    The time component of the four-force includes in this case a heating rate , besides the power . [1] Note that work and heat cannot be meaningfully separated, though, as they both carry inertia. [ 2 ] This fact extends also to contact forces, that is, to the stress–energy–momentum tensor .

  7. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the other two fictitious forces, the centrifugal force always points radially outward from the axis of rotation of the rotating frame, with magnitude , where is the component of the position vector perpendicular to , and unlike the Coriolis force in particular, it is independent of the motion of the particle in the rotating frame.

  8. Free body diagram - Wikipedia

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    A force arrow should lie along the line of force, but where along the line is irrelevant. A force on an extended rigid body is a sliding vector. non-rigid extended. The point of application of a force becomes crucial and has to be indicated on the diagram. A force on a non-rigid body is a bound vector. Some use the tail of the arrow to indicate ...

  9. Aerodynamic force - Wikipedia

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    The aerodynamic force is the resultant vector from adding the lift vector, perpendicular to the flow direction, and the drag vector, parallel to the flow direction. Forces on an aerofoil . In fluid mechanics , an aerodynamic force is a force exerted on a body by the air (or other gas ) in which the body is immersed, and is due to the relative ...