Universal Physics Journal
Event 5: Golf Club Swing & Impact Forces

Author: Ethan Skyler
Publication Date: to be announced
Revision Date: June 18, 2006

Purpose
   

Event 5

Force Definition and Characteristics

1. A force is a push or pull experienced by an object.

2. Each force has both magnitude and direction making it a vector quantity.

3. Each force always finds immediate opposition or support against another force, with said other force of opposition or support always being equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

    This mutual force rule, as generally stated in Newton's LAW III, always holds true for all such pairs of forces present during both accelerational and non-accelerational events.  Thus no force can exist without the immediate presence of a mutual force of one type or another.

4. Acceleration for an object can be any combination of the following:
(a) a change in the object's speed (linear acceleration),
(b) a change in direction for the object or portions thereof (centripetal acceleration), and/or
(c) a change in the object's rate of rotation (tangential acceleration). 

5. An action force is a force causing the activity of acceleration for an object. 
    Thus acceleration's exclusive cause is an action force.

6. An active object is an object experiencing acceleration.
    Conversely, an inactive object is one where acceleration is absent.  

7. Force is invisible.
    Sometimes we can see the effect of a force but never the force itself.  Scales are often effective in displaying the presence and magnitude of the pair of mutual forces present between contacting objects. Therefore it is important in the study of forces to use scales whenever possible.

8. Force is absolute.
    No matter how one views an event where forces are present, from every conceivable frame of reference, the existence and magnitude of the mutual forces present will always remain the same or absolute. One only needs to apply a scale to the event to make clear the absolute nature of force.

to be continued ...

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