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You can see things in motion all around you: on a school's playground full of happy students, in cars driving along the streets, in raindrops falling to the ground. Children on swings, going down slides, jumping rope, or playing soccer are all opportunities to make observations about motion. Eventually, the soccer ball will stop rolling, the swing will slow down and come to a stop, and a child may trip and fall to the ground. We can see behavior in motion occurring, but what actually causes the behavior? Is the behavior of motion applied everywhere in the universe? The answer can be found in Newton’s three laws of motion, which he published in 1687.
Newton's Three Laws of Motion:[edit | edit source]
Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians that ever lived. He was born in England on December 25, 1643. He was born the same year that Galileo died. He lived for 85 years. Isaac Newton was raised by his grandmother. He attended Free Grammar School and then went on to Trinity College Cambridge. Newton worked his way through college. While at college he became interested in math, physics, and astronomy. Newton received both a bachelor's and master's degree.
While Newton was in college he was writing his ideas in a journal. Newton had new ideas about motion, which he called his three laws of motion. He also had ideas about gravity, the diffraction of light, and forces. Newton's ideas were so good that Queen Anne knighted him in 1705. His accomplishments laid the foundations for modern science and revolutionized the world. Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727.
Newton's First Law[edit | edit source]
"Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it." Force is a push or pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change direction. In the absence