Isaac Newton

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This essay provides a brief background on Isaac Newton, the man and the scientist. The main focus of the paper is Newton's three laws of motion. 1)Law of Inertia; 2)Law of Acceleration; and 3)Law of Interaction. The paper explains what each law is, how it applies to the behavior of motion and what its significance is to the world of physics. Through these three laws, Newton was able to prove the nature of objects in the universe, and how they interact with each other.

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"The First Law of Motion is stated as follows: "An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force" (Physics Classroom 2003). The first law is also called the Law of Inertia, and explains the concept of inertia, which is an object at rest. The first law explains that, in properly defining inertia, "the tendency of an object to persist in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line is called inertia" (Navaza 1996 110). Theoretically, the first law of motion is just a restatement of Galileo Galilei's analysis about the nature and behavior of motion."

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