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When muscles of the human body exert forces, they can set an object into motion or even change its state of motion. These muscular forces can cause deformation of bodies that is generally not visible to the unaided eye. Forces of many types control all motion in the universe.
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Scientific notation: very large or very small numbers can be written, using powers of 10: 175,000 = 1.75 × 105 or 0.000175 = 1.75 × 10−4.
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Density of a substance ρ = m/V, that is, the ratio between the mass m of substance and volume V which contains the mass m.
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Okuno, E., Fratin, L. (2014). Forces. In: Biomechanics of the Human Body. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8576-6_1
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