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Newtonian mechanics

Weather; Meteorology

A system of mechanics based on Newton's laws of motion. The salient characteristics of Newtonian mechanics are that mass and energy are separately conserved, all physical variables can take on a ...

A set of three postulates first set forth by Sir Isaac Newton in the middle of the seventeenth century. According to the first law (the law of inertia), a body (point mass) remains at rest or in a ...

Newton's law of cooling

Weather; Meteorology

As stated by Newton, the exponential decrease of temperature with time of a body cooling in a fluid. Newton's law of cooling is an approximation valid under restricted conditions, not a universal law ...

Newtonian fluid

Weather; Meteorology

A fluid in which the stress tensor is proportional to the rate of deformation, that is, a fluid satisfying the Navier–Stokes equations. See viscous force.

New Guinea Coastal Current

Weather; Meteorology

A seasonal western boundary current through Vitiaz Strait and along the northern coast of New Guinea. The current flows northwestward from April to November and is then a link between the northern ...

New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent

Weather; Meteorology

A western boundary current and part of the equatorial current system in the Pacific Ocean. It flows northwestward through Vitiaz Strait and along the northern coast of New Guinea. It receives its ...