Mathematics of War

[Surferbeetle]

“exactly what are vertical and horizontal forces?”

War has been defined by many descriptions, but it simply is the displacement of energy, from one orientation into another. This is the main reason the power-law distribution applies to war. There are two forms of energy inside every displacement, kinetic and potential. Kinetic energy has mostly a component of Vertical force, while potential energy has mostly a component of horizontal force.

From an irrigation standpoint it can be beneficial to think of the potential energy of water in terms of hydraulic head or elevation...using this baseline analogy potential energy is seen as due to position in a gravitational field (E=mgh, SI units) while kinetic energy is a form of mechanical energy associated with movement or rotation (E =1/2mv2, E rotational= 1/2Iw2, SI units).