Comparison Of Isaac Einstein And Isaac Newton

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Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton are two of the many intelligent people of science. Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643, Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth, United Kingdom. Although these two men were born in different centuries they have managed to have a conflict that is still discussed till this day.
Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton share many similarities such as coming up with a theory for the universe. Both Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton were physicists. They shared a concept and determination of understanding the world as it was. Einstein and Newton both created equations that scientists use till this day for many different purposes.
Although these two men had many similarities, however they had many different views on certain situations. For example Isaac Newton believed that gravity was a force that acts instantaneously across any distance. Newton was able to unify the heavens and the earth with his theory of gravity. Isaac Newton also believed that earth was kept in orbit because of the sun’s gravity grabbing hold of it. Isaac Newton came up with the three laws of motion. The first law of motion is an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force and also that an object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force, this law is also called the law of inertia. Newton’s second law of motion is acceleration and is produced when a force acts on a mass, this means that the greater the mass of the object being accelerated the greater the amount of force needed to accelerate the object sometimes also known as F = m a. F being the force m being t...

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...the term color spectrum. Although the spectrum appears to be continuous with no discrete division between the colors in the spectrum he decided to divide it into seven colors which are as we know it red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, also known as to some as (ROYGBIV). Newton showed that every color had a unique angle of refraction which can be calculated using a specific prism. Isaac Newton saw that all objects appear to be the same color when the beam of colored light that illuminates them, and the beam of colored light will stay the same color no matter how many times it is reflected or refracted. This led him to his conclusion that color is indeed a property of the light that reflects from objects and not a property of objects itself. Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton have both laid down the foundation for much of the science we see today.

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