{"id":7985,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/force\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:47","slug":"force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/force\/","title":{"rendered":"Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An external agent capable of altering the state of rest or motion of a rigid body. &nbsp;According to Newton&#8217;s second law of motion, the force (<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">F<\/span>) required to produce an acceleration (<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">a<\/span>) in a mass (<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">m<\/span>) is given by <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">F<\/span>=<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">ma<\/span>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"acceleration\">Acceleration<\/a>, <a href=\"balance_scale_task\">Balance scale task<\/a>, <a href=\"biomechanics\">Biomechanics<\/a>, <a href=\"center_of_mass\">Center of mass<\/a>, Centrifugal\/centripetal, <a href=\"dynamics\">Dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"isometric_contraction\">Isometric contraction<\/a>, <a href=\"isotonic_contraction\">Isotonic contraction<\/a>, <a href=\"joule\">Joule<\/a>, <a href=\"kinematics\">Kinematics<\/a>, <a href=\"mass\">Mass<\/a>, <a href=\"kinetics\">Kinetics<\/a>, <a href=\"moment_of_force\">Moment of force<\/a>, <a href=\"momentum\">Momentum<\/a>, <a href=\"newton\">newton<\/a>, Motor news, <a href=\"muscle_tone_-or_power-\">Muscle tone (or power)<\/a>, <a href=\"musculoskeletal_system\">Musculoskeletal system<\/a>, <a href=\"newtonian_-or_classical-_mechanics\">Newtonian (or classical) mechanics<\/a>, <a href=\"newton-s_law_of_universal_gravitation\">Newton&#8217;s law of universal gravitation<\/a>, <a href=\"newton-s_laws_of_motion\">Newton&#8217;s laws of motion<\/a>, <a href=\"resultant\">Resultant<\/a>, <a href=\"si_unit\">SI unit<\/a>, <a href=\"torque\">Torque<\/a>, <a href=\"van_der_waals_forces\">van der Waals forces<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An external agent capable of altering the state of rest or motion of a rigid body. &nbsp;According to Newton&#8217;s second law of motion, the force (F) required to produce an acceleration (a) in a mass (m) is given by F=ma.&nbsp; See Acceleration, Balance scale task, Biomechanics, Center of mass, Centrifugal\/centripetal, Dynamics, Isometric contraction, Isotonic contraction, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}