Isaac Newton's Laws Of Motion

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Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician and is now considered a widely recognised scientist because of the work that he did by contribution to scientific knowledge. He is known for creation 3 laws of motion that have stood correct for three centuries.

Newton’s first law of motion, “An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” Basically states what we know today as inertia. The law of inertia means that objects will try to keep on doing what they are doing presently. If a ball is rolling down a hill, Newton’s first law of inertia states that the ball will keep on trying to move down the hill. If the ball is resting on a flat surface it will not want to move anywhere, but instead it will stay stationary because the law of inertia states that it will stay there unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

Newton’s second law of motion, “Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass ...

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