At 09:41 2003-08-09 -0500, Gene Mechtly wrote:
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Brian White wrote: > ... > So...if I pushed on a metal square...really really hard. I'd say that's > pressure I'm applying. If I measured the force hitting that little > square...could I not say that the force I was measuring was the force of my > pressing it really really hard? > <grin>
Certainly, a force is a push or a pull.
> See...we start getting too weird with this stuff..we lose our audience.
Their is nothing weird about the qualitative definition of a force; a push or a pull.
It is the quantitative Newton's Second Law, f = m a, that might be a problem for persons who have not had a good quality lesson in Middle School general science.
Gene.
