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RUNNING HEAD: SIR ISAAC NEWTON

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Sir Isaac Newton

Introduction:

The world was gifted with Sir Isaac Newton in the year 1642. The birth place of Newton was

Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, in England. Father of Newton passed away three months before he

came into this world. Newton was amazing with his hands and he even built sundials, a hydro

clock, windmills, and flew kites with oil lamp attached to the ends. Newton’s mother wanted him

to work on the farm so he took newton out of school. He was not talented enough for farming,

and his lecturer suggested him to go to the University of Cambridge. In summers of 1661,

Newton went to study in Trinity College of Cambridge. In college he studied geometry,

arithmetic, astronomy, trigonometry, and optics. In the first month of 1665 he completed his

bachelor’s degree. (Bechler, 2013)

Newton studied light, and calculated the refractions of light on a glass prism. He discovered that

white light is mixture of many colors. Further discovering colors, Newton found quantifiable,

mathematical arrays to it. Newton discovered that white light was a combination of an

inestimable number of colored rays. Every single ray was unlike by the angle it was refracted.

General public condemned him for this theory because they believed it was changed forms of

identical white light. After the disapproval of the theory Newton published the book called,

“Opticks”. This book clarified his concepts of light and the colors it produces. Newton published

his first paper named, "Of Colors" in 1672, it was entirely based on a chain of lectures he

delivered throughout his beginning three years of teaching. The theory, which ultimately became

Book number One of Opticks, enlightened Newton's concepts on color and light. Book number

Two of Opticks was distributed alongside with "Hypothesis Enlightening the Properties of Light"
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in 1675, a debatable treatise explaining a new system of nature. Book number three of the

Opticks comprises a series of "Queries" about color and light and other subjects. (WJ, 2004). A

finalized edition of Opticks was printed in English in 1704; it became the most famous books of

Newton during his lifespan. Although Newton's Principia was published in 1687, it comprised

the theories Newton was working twenty years earlier, throughout the period he had move back

to Woolsthorpe to escape the plague. These theories focus on the physics of motion and the orbit

of the planets, and a ground-breaking theory of universal gravitation, which states:

“Every mass draws every other mass in the world, and that the gravitational force among two

bodies is proportionate to the product of their masses and inversely proportionate to the square of

the distance amongst them”.

Astrophysicist Edmond Halley fortified the expansion of Newton's theories and their resultant

calculations; Edmond also worked as the financial supporter for the publication of Principia. The

book was printed in Latin, and Newton included a "General Scholium" to the upcoming editions

in which he defended his approaches.(Bechler, 2013)

Newton's Three Laws of Motion:

Every day we practice the laws of Isaac Newton. Travelling in a bus, pushing a table and even

during a fight. Each law is connected with the motion. One can relate the 1st law in a stopping

bus, the 2nd law when a person is pushing a table or any object, and the last one in water.
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Newton’s First Law of Motion:

The first law of newton in easy terms "An object in motion has a tendency to to remain in

motion, and an object at rest has a tendency to remain at rest, except the object is stimulated by

an external force.” A person can experience the person was in a fast moving car; for example if

the car is moving at a speed of 70 miles per hour, which all of a sudden comes to a stop. The

person will keep moving frontward although the car will come to a stop, (Pemberton, 2012).

Newton’s Second Law of Motion:

Second law of Newton can be presented with the help of the equation, F=MA or A=F/M, where

M is Mass, F is force, and A represents Acceleration. In other words, Acceleration is created

when a force is acted upon a mass. The bigger the mass, the more the quantity of force is needed

to in order to accelerate the object. This formula can be used to observe what amount of force is

required to move some objects. For example, John’s car is around 1,000 kilogram. He pushes it

at .05 m/s/s. The equation will become F=1,000 * (.05). The result is F=50 Newtons (unit of

Force), (Pemberton, 2012).

Newton’s Third Law of Motion:

The last law states that “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. This statement

of the law means that in each interaction, there is a combination of forces acting on both

interacting objects. The amount of the forces acting on the first object equals the amount of the

force acting on the second object. The direction of the force on the first object is opposite to the

direction of the force on the second object. Forces every time work in pairs - equivalent and

opposite, (Pemberton, 2012).

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Conclusion:

Newton considered science as a jumble of isolated actualities and laws, capability of describing

some occurrences, and foretelling only a few. He left it with a combined structure of laws, which

can be implied to a vast range of physical discoveries, and he was very good at making accurate

predictions.

Newton passed away in England on March 20, 1727 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, the

first ever scientist to be given this honor, (Great experiments in physics, 2015). Relating

scientists to Isaac Newton is like comparing an Airplane to a trike. Newton was simply the best.

Other scientists have been exceptional too but Newton had views and theories that were so

accurate it is nearly hard to believe. His famous three laws of motion are being till date and

greatly assisted in discovering all the secrecies Out there in space. Without any doubt Isaac

Newton is the greatest scientist of all time.

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Bibliography

WJ, S. (2004). impact mechanics. London, England: Cambridge University Press.

Pemberton, H. S. (2012). A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. London: S. Palmer.

Bechler, T., Zev, M. (2013). Contemporary Newtonian Research (Studies in the History of

Modern Science).NY

Great experiments in physics. (2015, December 17). Isaac Newton. Retrieved From the physics

online website: https://www.newton.ac.uk

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