Dyne-centimeter

Lead Author: Cutler J. Cleveland (other articles)
Article Topic: Units
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Peter Saundry (other articles)
Last Updated: August 24, 2009

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.

Citation
Cleveland, Cutler (Lead Author); Peter Saundry (Topic Editor). 2009. "Dyne-centimeter." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 24, 2009; Retrieved November 20, 2009]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Dyne-centimeter>
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