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| Richardson, Terry. A Guide to Metrics. Michigan: Prakken Publications, 1978: 66. | "A small (100 g) apple requires a force of about one Newton to keep it from falling." | an apple | ||||||||||||||||
| Khounsary, Ali. Newton BBS. University of Chicago. 23 May 2004. | "So, anything that weighs about a fifth of a pound (or about 100 g) has a one N weight. Perhaps a small bar of chocolate weighs that much." | a small chocolate bar | ||||||||||||||||
| Office of the Attorney General Consumer Protection Division. State of Minnesota. 7 June 2004. |
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In the United States the Newton unit is least used as a measurement of weight. The Newton is named after the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Besides being a unit of force it was also adopted as a measurement of weight by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1960. A Newton is the force acting on a 1 kg object that would cause an acceleration of 1 m/s2. In general terms anything that has a mass of 102 grams is said to have a weight of one Newton, because a 0.102 kg object accelerating at 9.81 m/s2 gives you a force of one Newton.
Local grocery stores have many things that weigh one Newton. In the fruit department, one apple or one orange weighs one Newton. In the sweets department a chocolate candy bar weighs one Newton.
While no single currency weighs one Newton, several put together do. One American nickel has a mass of 0.005 kg, so 20 nickels would weigh one Newton. It would take 50 dimes to equal one Newton since each dime weighs 2.268 grams. One American dollar has a weight of 1 gram, which means that 102 one dollar bills would weigh one Newton.
There are many things that weigh one Newton in fast food restaurants. Some examples are an order of chicken fingers from Arby's or an onion bagel from Bruegger's. If you eat scrambled eggs at McDonald's then you are eating one Newton worth of food.
There are countless things in this world that are considered to weigh one Newton.
Felix Orer -- 2004