Read the following email of proposal where a manager in a bank's call centre (Peter) is asking his manager (Sally) to approve a proposal to enroll his staff on a three day sales training course. From the context, try to guess what the meaning of the words/phrases in bold are.
It spun out of control because part of the software assumed Imperial units and another part assumed metric units. The units by which we now measure physical quantities is called the S.I. (System International) system established in 1960. Within this system, the most commonly used set of units in physics are M.K.S (Metres, Kilograms, Seconds) system. The basic units are shown in Table.
In physics, force is a push or pull on an object. A force can cause an object to accelerate, slow down, remain in place, or change shape. The unit of measure for force is the newton which is abbreviated as N. One newton is the force needed to accelerate one gram of mass by one centimeter per second squared.