What is the name for the unit of work done by a force of 1 dyne moving through a distance of 1 centimetre?
Erg is still widely used in astrophysics and sometimes in mechanics. Erg The erg is a unit of energy and work equal to 10 joules. It originated in the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units. It has the symbol "erg". The erg is not an SI unit. Its name is derived from "ergon" (ἔργον), a Greek word meaning "work" or "task". An erg is the amount of work done by a force of one dyne exerted for a distance of one centimeter. In the CGS base units, it is equal to one gram centimeter-squared per second-squared (g·cm/s). It is thus equal to
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