What does it mean to have a "Newton" as a unit of force?

Question

In the video game "Mass Effect", there are characters (potentially including the player) who possess powers called "Biotics", which can be used to, in essence, telekinetically batter and generally abuse your foes. One power in particular, called "Throw", refers to the force of the character's biotic strike in terms of Newtons, ranging from 400 (I think) at the low end all the way up to 1000. Aside from some a beautiful physics engine rendering the affected enemy flying backwards at tremendous speed and landing in a crumpled heap, there's no indication of what any of this /means/. What does a Newton refer to? How "much" is it? Can you provide a real-life, easily understandable comparison (i.e., standing in front of a fully-loaded tractor-trailer doing about 65 mph)?

Answer 1

The definition of a Newton has already been given.



Video games are not required to follow the rules of science.

Video games do whatever the program parameters tell them to do.



Just because the Newton is a valid engineering unit in physics does not necessarily mean that the term, as used in a video game, has any relation to the real world.

Answer 2

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Force - a force applied to a free mass causes it to accelerate Acceleration is the increase in velocity of a mass. A Newton unit of Force - 1 Newton causes a mass of 1 Kg to accelerate at a rate of 1 m/s/s I simple terms 1 Newton will make a 1 Kg mass accelerate from 0 to 1m/s in 1 second I hope this helps, it sounds like you haven't got to this really!

Answer 3

1000 Newtons

Answer 4

A Newton is the force required to give a mass of 1 kg an acceleration of 1 m/s².

Answer 5

A newton is named after the great British scientist Sir Isaac Newton (born on Christmas Day 1642), and is about the force needed to lift an average sized apple.



400 newtons is enough to lift a largish child, 1000 newtons will lift a largish (200+ pound) adult.

Answer 6

A newton is a measurment of force i think it is 1.69kg or something it is called newton because of the person that made the three rules its all about physics and quite hard to understand but if you do physics in school you sort of get the hang of it.

Answer 7

A newton is a basic Standard measurement for force. The heaver something is and the faster it is going, the more Newtons you would have.



As for your tractor, the best I can come up with would be either 42 or quite a few.

Answer 8

The newton is the unit of force derived in the SI system; it is equal to the amount of force required to give a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one metre per second squared. Algebraically:

Answer 9

sure.



Newton is a measure of force.



kg*m/s^2



Something in real life: In terms of weight



100 newtons is about 22 pounds

1000 is about 222 pounds.



So if someone hands you a 222 pounds bar bell you have to apply 1000 newtons of force upwards to keep it from falling on your foot.

Answer 10

its metric and can be converted into Ft-Lbs