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Isaac Newton: The World's Most Influential Book Of Physics

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Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642. He died on March 31, 1727. Throughout his life, Isaac Newton was known to have a nasty temper, and a huge ego. He only had a few close friends. Isaac Newton never married, never had any children, and it was said many times that he never had any romantic relationships. Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire. He attended school in Lincolnshire, and later on in life he attended Cambridge University in 1661. He remained at this university, until 1996. During this time, while at the school, he created “Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica” and it was later published in 1687. It has been called the single most influential book on physics. Newton was an inventor, however, more with ideas than tangible inventions. Newton performed experiments examining the nature of light, he found that normal light, otherwise known as white light, is actually made up of a spectrum of colors. The telescope lens he invented, helped …show more content…

The laws are: (1) Every object moves in a straight line unless acted upon by a force. (2) The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the object’s mass. (3) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The first law means that there is a natural tendency of objects to continue what they were already doing. All objects resist changes in their state of motion, if the absence of an unbalanced force occurs, an object in motion will stay in the same state of motion. The second law, means that the heavier the object is, the more force it requires to move the same distance as lighter objects. This can be expressed through a mathematical equation, F= M A. The third law, means that for every force there is a reaction force that is equal in size, but opposite in direction. This means that whenever an object pushes another object, it gets pushed back in the opposite direction equally as

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