What is the unit of force which, acting upon a mass of 1 gramme, will produce acceleration of 1 centimetre per second per second?
Dyne Dyne The dyne (symbol dyn, from Greek δύναμις, "dynamis", meaning power, force) is a derived unit of force specified in the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units, a predecessor of the modern SI. The name dyne was first proposed as a C.G.S. unit of force in 1873 by a Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The dyne is defined as "the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram at a rate of one centimetre per second per second". An equivalent definition of the dyne is "that force which, acting for one second, will produce a
Kilogram-force per square centimetre Kilogram-force per square centimetre A kilogram-force per centimetre square (kgf/cm), often just kilogram per square centimetre (kg/cm), or kilopond per centimetre square is a deprecated unit of pressure using metric units. It is not a part of the International System of Units (SI), the modern metric system. 1 kgf/cm equals 98.0665 kPa (kilopascals). kg/cm remains active as a measurement of force primarily due to older torque measurement devices still in use. This use of the unit of pressure provides an intuitive understanding for how a body's "mass" can apply "force" to a scale's "surface area" i.e.kilogram-force per square (centi-)metre. In