The power of exercise

Japanese: 運動の力 - うんどうのちから
The power of exercise

...Descartes' force is a secondary concept that appears when an object moves. He defined it as the product of the object's speed and size, and called it the force of motion vis motus. Leibniz criticized Descartes by calling it vis viva, defining it as the product of mass and the square of speed (Wiss-Wiwa controversy).

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "force of motion" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…デカルトの力は,物体が運動することによって現れる二次的な概念である。彼はそれを物体の速さと大きさの積として定義し〈運動の力vis motus〉と呼んだ。ライプニッツは,あらためてそうした力を〈活力vis viva〉と呼んで,質量と速さの2乗との積で定義し,デカルトを批判した(ウィス・ウィウァ論争)。…

※「運動の力」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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