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Mass and Force in Newtonian Mechanics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

L. N. G. Filon
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The considerations which I propose to put before you to-day arose from an attempt, when teaching students, to build up the classical laws of Newtonian Mechanics inductively from laboratory experiments.

In this task we are immediately confronted with two fundamental notions, those of mass and force.

It will probably be admitted that no definition of a physical quantity can be accepted as adequate unless it implies a criterion leading to an unambiguous measure of the thing defined.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 22 , Issue 248 , February 1938 , pp. 9 - 16
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1938

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* The President died on 29th December, 1937; this address was read at the Annual Meeting on 4th January, 1938 by Professor G. B. Jeffery.