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Newton helped define the laws of gravity and the planetary motion,
cofounded the field of calculus, and explained laws of light and color,
among many other discoveries. Newton is the man who has the famous story
of how he uncovered the laws of gravity by being hit on the head by a falling
apple. He was the man who came up with Newtons three laws of motion
which is what we learn in science and we should all know by now, the three
laws of science are very important dealing with gravity and force and
motion. Newton also had a huge part in mathematics and the laws of nature
which led him to his two most famous works.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton, his life, his work and accomplishmentsSir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1942; but since the
calendar changes of the 19th century; and the date became January 4th, 1643;
which is commonly used today. Newton was an English physicist,
mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher,
who is also one of the most accomplished and influential scientists in
history. Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three laws of
motion in his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. He laid
the groundwork for classical mechanics, also known as Newtonian
Mechanics, which sway in the physical sciences until the advent of quantum
mechanics around the twentieth century. Newton was the first to show that
the motions of bodies on Earth and Celestial bodies are governed by the
same set of natural laws, by using Keplers laws of planetary motion. The
unifying and predictive powers of his laws were integral to the scientific
revolution and advancement of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Newton also realized that white light is composed of a spectrum of colors
and he further argued that light consists of corpuscles (particles). He
enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular
momentum, and he developed a law describing the rate of cooling of objects
when exposed to air. He studied the speed of sound in air and voiced a
theory of the origin of stars. Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz shared
the credit for playing major roles in the development of calculus in the
western world; this area of mathematics has since proved of enormous value
for the advancement of science and technology. Newton has also made
contributions to other areas of mathematics, having derived the binomial
theorem in its entirety. In addition to his monumental work in mathematics
and science, Newton was a devout Christian, although a somewhat
unorthodox and non-Trinitarian one. He claimed to study the bible everyday,
and he wrote on religion than he did on science. Newton thought that his
scientific investigations were a way to bring to the light the creators work
and the principles used by the Creator in ordering the physical universe.
that predicts the behavior of moving object. The behavior of all objects can
be described by saying that objects tend to keep doing what theyre doing.
This statement of the second law can also be expressed in an equation. A=F
net /m. The equation is often rearranged to a more familiar form which the
net force is equated to the product of the mass times the acceleration. F
net=m*a. In the second law emphasis is on the net force and acceleration is
proportional to the net force; the net force equals mass times acceleration;
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