Sir Isaac Newton's Laws Of Motion
Newton’s Laws First let’s get to know some history about the man behind all of this, Sir Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton, the man who is responsible for what we all have come to know as the “Laws of Motion” was born on January 4, 1643, which is very often displayed as December 25, 1642, if using the older version of the Julien calendar, in the Helmet of Woolsthorpe, England. Sir Isaac Newton is believed to be one of the most influential scientists known to have ever lived. His ideas became the basis for the physics we all know and use today, well some of us. He not only studied optics, astronomy, and math, he even ended up creating what we all know as “calculus”(Mathematics). Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician and physics scholar who transformed
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The second law of Motion simply states that the force needed to make an object accelerate equals the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration. The formula is: Force = Mass X(times) Acceleration (F=MxA). This mean an object that is heavy requires a much greater force than a lighter object does in order to travel with the same or even greater amount of acceleration and distance. So let's say a tennis player wants to hit a tennis ball and also a baseball with his racquet, while applying the same amount of force with the racquet to each one of the balls in order to see which one will reach the furthest length over all. The answer is undoubtedly going to be the tennis ball; why is that, you ask? Well it is due to the fact that the acceleration of the object is linked to the mass of it, and to the amount of force that is applied to the object as well. Therefore, if the tennis player were to strike the tennis ball and the baseball with the same amount of force with the racquet, the tennis ball would accelerate at a much higher rate and would travel a much further distance due to its much lighter density and mass, compared to the baseball. In order to get the baseball to accelerate at the same rate as the tennis ball and travel the same distance aswell, he would have to increase the amount of force being applied to the baseball with the swing of racquet; due to it being much more dense, and heavier in
The second law of Motion simply states that the force needed to make an object accelerate equals the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration. The formula is: Force = Mass X(times) Acceleration (F=MxA). This mean an object that is heavy requires a much greater force than a lighter object does in order to travel with the same or even greater amount of acceleration and distance. So let's say a tennis player wants to hit a tennis ball and also a baseball with his racquet, while applying the same amount of force with the racquet to each one of the balls in order to see which one will reach the furthest length over all. The answer is undoubtedly going to be the tennis ball; why is that, you ask? Well it is due to the fact that the acceleration of the object is linked to the mass of it, and to the amount of force that is applied to the object as well. Therefore, if the tennis player were to strike the tennis ball and the baseball with the same amount of force with the racquet, the tennis ball would accelerate at a much higher rate and would travel a much further distance due to its much lighter density and mass, compared to the baseball. In order to get the baseball to accelerate at the same rate as the tennis ball and travel the same distance aswell, he would have to increase the amount of force being applied to the baseball with the swing of racquet; due to it being much more dense, and heavier in