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Question
Name the S.I. unit of force and define it .
Solution
The S.I. unit of force is newton.
One newton is the force which acts on a body of mass 1kg and produces an acceleration of 1 m/s2, i.e. 1 N = 1 kg × 1 m/s2.
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