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Physical forces make part of our daily live, and yet, the concept of force in itself remains an abstraction. Forces cannot be seen or touched, but fit by definition consistently into the laws of physics due to a set of characteristics that we, humans, have assigned to them.
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Hebra, A.J. (2010). Force, mass, weight, and torque. In: The Physics of Metrology. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-78381-8_5
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