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Sir Isaac Newton : Three Laws Of Motion

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Sir Isaac Newton (born January 4th, 1643 and died March 31st, 1727) was a famous mathematician and physicist. He has contributed so much to the world of physics like the Laws of Motion, Universal Laws of Gravity, and the Law of Cooling (or heating). This paper will explore each of the three primary areas of which Newton was instrumental in. This essay will state his beliefs on absolute time and absolute space. The first of Newton’s great contributions is the Three Laws of Motion. These laws are vital to us because they have to do with almost everything we do every day. The laws tell us how things move around or stay still. They help control things we use every day like how cars work, the water flow and how buildings keep from plummeting down to the ground. The first law of motion is called the Law of Inertia. The law states that if an object at rest will stay at rest until it is acted on by an unbalanced force. Some examples on how the Law of Inertia is used is when a ball rolls down a hill. The ball will continue to roll down the hill until another force stops it. Another example is how someone moves directly to the side when they make a sharp turn in a car. The will not stop moving until another force, like their seatbelt, will stop them. The second law of motion states that acceleration can only happen when a force acts on by a mass. The bigger that mass of the object is, the bigger the force is needed to make the object accelerate. An example of the

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