Dyne-centimeter
From The Encyclopedia of Earth
August 24, 2009, 7:45 pm
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Dyne (dyn) a unit of force under the centimetre-gram-second or "CGS" system for physical measurements.
One dyne is the force that accelerates a mass of one gram at the rate of one centimeter per second per second. Expressed in SI units, the dyne equals 10-5 Newton.
This is quite a small force: it equals about 2.248 x 10-6 pound of force (lbf) in the traditional English system.
The word dyne comes from the Greek dynamis, power.
