Isaac Newton And His Three Law

Newton and his Three Laws

Isaac Newton’s story of how an apple falling from a tree that hit his head inspired him to formulate a theory of gravitation is one that all school children grow up hearing about. Newton is arguably one of the most influential scientific minds in human history. He has published books such as Arithmetica Universalis, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, Methods of Fluxions, Opticks, the Queries, and most famously, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia MathematicaHe formulated the three laws of gravitation, discovered the generalized binomial theorem, developed infinitesimal calculus (sharing credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz, who developed the theory independently), and worked extensively on optics and refraction of light. Newton changed the way that people look at the world they live in and how the universe works.

Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 25 December, 1642 based on the Julian Calendar (4 January, 1643, Gregorian Calendar) in Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, three months after the death of his father. He was born premature, and his mother Hannah Ayscough had reportedly said that he was small enough to fit inside a quart mug. Newton’s mother remarried when he was three years old and left him in the care of his grandmother. This incident created much emotional distance between the scientist and his mother, and in addition to that, Newton also confessed to frightening his parents by threatening to burn them and their house. Another sad aspect of Newton’s personal life is that even though he was engaged, he never married.

Newton was educated at the King’s School, Grantham from the age of twelve to seventeen where he learned only Latin and no mathematics. His mother re...

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...every individual to consider the earth as a particle to do the analysis based on its orbital motion around a star.

Here mass, acceleration, momentum, and force are the quantities that are defined externally i.e. they are the externally defined quantities. It is also equally true that Newton’s laws of motion do not suffice to characterize the motion of deformable and rigid bodies. After the generalization of the laws of motion propounded by Newton in 1950 by Leonhard Euler, the laws were equally accepted for rigid bodies, and this was later called as Euler's laws of motion. This theory was later applied in the deformable bodies, and the laws were equally true in that condition, as well. Even though this law is outmoded by laws of relativity, this law is equally applicable in the situation where the speed of objects are less than the speed with which light travels.