In International System of Units (SI) the newton is the unit for force. It is equal to the amount of net force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of 1 m/sec2 in direction of the applied force. It is named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics, specifically Newton's second law of motion.
Dyne is a cgs unit of force. One dyne is equal to 10−5 N
If a vector is multiplied by a scalar as in , then the magnitude of the resulting vector is equal to the product of p and the magnitude of , and its direction is the same as if p is positive and opposite to if p is negative.
Distributive law for scalar multiplication:
The first law of thermodynamics is the application of the conservation of energy principle to heat and thermodynamic processes: