Full name: millidyne
Plural form: millidynes
Symbol: mdyn
Category type: force
Scale factor: 1.0E-8
The SI derived unit for force is the newton.
1 newton is equal to 100000000 millidyne.
Valid units must be of the force type.
You can use this form to select from known units:
The SI prefix "milli" represents a factor of 10-3, or in exponential notation, 1E-3.
So 1 millidyne = 10-3 dynes.
The definition of a dyne is as follows:
In physics, the dyne is a unit of force specified in the centimetre-gram-second (cgs) system of units, symbol "dyn". One dyne is equal to exactly 10-5 newtons. Further, the dyne can be defined as "the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram at a rate of one centimetre per second squared."