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Phys. Rev. D 34, 3240–3241 (1986)

Test of Newton’s second law at small accelerations

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Alex Abramovici and Zeev Vager
Department of Nuclear Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

Received 17 April 1986; published in the issue dated 15 November 1986

We present the results of a test of Newton’s second law for small accelerations. It is found that within experimental errors F=ma holds down to the lowest accelerations measurable with our apparatus, ∼3×10-9 cm/s2.

© 1986 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3240
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.34.3240
PACS:
06.30.Gv, 04.80.+z