View Full Version : Dividing Newtons by kilograms
Danny Fiasco
Sep 21, 2007, 05:27 PM
I'm working on a problem for physics in which I found the resultant of two forces on a car (770 Newtons) and the car weighs 3000 kg. I put it in the formula F=ma so it looked like 770N=3000kg*A and I don't know if you can divide those two units by each other to get acceleration. Thanks for any help
Dan
chris89
Sep 23, 2007, 08:55 PM
The Newton is a SI unit which is defined by; 1Newton is the force needed to cause an acceleration of 1m/s^2 on an object with 1kg of mass.
So yes, by its definition, Newtons divided by mass would give accleration.
ebaines
Sep 24, 2007, 06:45 AM
Right - in fundamental terms, 1 Nt = 1 kg-m/s^2. You should memorize that - it comes up a lot in physics.
ROLCAM
Jan 26, 2009, 07:42 PM
One newton (on Earth surface) is equal to:-
Kilogram
0.1019716
This fact could be helpful.