SECOND LAW OF MOTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second law of motion mean? 

• SECOND LAW OF MOTION (noun)
  The noun SECOND LAW OF MOTION has 1 sense:

1. the rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force

  Familiarity information: SECOND LAW OF MOTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND LAW OF MOTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rate of change of momentum is proportional to the imposed force and goes in the direction of the force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Newton's second law; Newton's second law of motion; second law of motion

Hypernyms ("second law of motion" is a kind of...):

law of motion; Newton's law; Newton's law of motion (one of three basic laws of classical mechanics)