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Project Gutenberg on Nostr: It is time to honor Emmy Noether with a momentum unit. For several years, I have been ...

It is time to honor Emmy Noether with a momentum unit.

For several years, I have been declaring that, in my class, one kg m/s is equal to one Noether, in honor of Emmy Noether, whose theorem shows, among other things, that space translation symmetry results in conservation of momentum.

By Geoff Nunes, Jr. via
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/92/9/647/3309134/It-is-time-to-honor-Emmy-Noether-with-a-momentum

Noether's theorem at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem

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