Born on Christmas Day, 1642, Isaac Newton spent his early childhood in a small farm-house in the hamlet of Woolsthope, sixty miles northwest of Cambridge and one hundred miles from London. Newton's biological father died before he was born and his mother remarried two years later to the Reverend Barnabas Smith. Newton attended the King's School at Grantham at the age of twelve but was brought home by his mother at nearly the age of sixteen to manage the estate. Luckily for science, Newton showed little interest in farming. Newton's childhood acquaintances remember him building a model windmill, ingenious water-mill and many sun-dials (North 5-8).
Newton, as an unsuccessful farmer, entered Trinity College at the age of eighteen. He went as a subsizer (one who runs errands to pay for college). Here Newton studied Sanderson's Logic and Kepler's Optics along with a number of leading edge theories at the time. Newton was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge by 1663. In 1665 the Great Plague struck England and Newton retired to Woolsthorpe to lived in seclusion. Here Newton made some of the greatest discoveries of his career (North 9-12).
Newton took his first step beyond his mentors during the winter of 1664-5. During this time, Newton extended the use of Willis's infinite series to evaluate areas and developed what we now know as the binomial theorem. In Newton's studies he generalized Pascal's Binomial Theorem to fractional and negative powers (Westfall 42).
Newton also discovered the concept of decimal fractions, which could be used to evaluate Pi out to any given number of decimal places. Newton believed that quantities calculated by binomial expansion should be considered an infinite series. Adding the binomial ...
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...ct attracts every other material object with a force that is proportional to its mass and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them (Berlinski 134-135).
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- Explains that isaac newton spent his early childhood in a small farm-house in the hamlet of woolsthope, sixty miles northwest of cambridge and one hundred miles from london.
- Explains that every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state unless an external force is applied to it. this law is essentially galileo's concept of inertia.
- Explains that the relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force f is f = ma. acceleration and force are vectors.
- Explains newton's simple law of universal gravitation, which states that every material object attracts other material objects with a force proportional to its mass and inverse to the square of the distance between them.
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- Opines that isaac newton was a determined mathematician and physicist, destined to achieve greatness due to his strong will power and courage.
- Describes ball, rouse's "sir isaac newton." a short account of the history of mathematics.
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1046 wordsRead More - The Contributions of Isaac Newtonexplanatory essayNewton was born on Christmas Day, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England. He was born the same day that Galileo Galilei died. His step- father died a couple months before he was born, and 2 years later his mother marries a well-to-do minister by the name of Barnabas Smith. Newton's mother, Hannah, soon left her son with his grandmother in order to start a new life with her husband. Due to his traumatic past at an early age, Newton showed signs of psychotic tendencies.
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- Describes how newton discovered that white light is a mixture of infinitely varied coloured rays and mathematical patterns in the colours of light.
- Explains newton's contributions to mathematics, but his most famous contributions were in analytical geometry and calculus.
- Explains newton's calculations of the force on the moon and the centripetal force needed to hold the stone in a sling.
- Explains that newton became cambridge's representative in parliament from 1689-90, and was also the president of the royal society from 1703 until his death in 1727.
- Explains that sir isaac newton is considered to be the greatest scientist that ever lived. his revolutionary advances in math, optics, physics, and astronomy are bases for the principles we use today.
- Explains newton's equation, principia, which states that every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force directed along the line of centers for the two objects.
- Explains that a body remains in its state of rest unless it is forced to change that state by force. the change of motion is proportional to the force impressed.
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- Explains that gravitation, or gravity, is a natural phenomenon by which all physical bodies magnetize each other. it is most commonly experienced as the agent that gives weight to objects with mass.
- Analyzes how newton's equation verbalizes about how the apple fell from the tree. it describes why you stay rooted to the ground, what locks the earth in orbit around the sun, and was utilized by nasa engineers.
- Explains that newton's law tells us how vigorous magnetization is. the equation verbalizes that the force between two objects is proportional to the product of their masses (m1 and m2).
- Explains newton's formula for planetary kineticism, based on the quantifications of astronomers afore him. stargazers had spent millennia cataloguing the positions of the stars and planets in the night welkin.
- Explains newton's laws of kineticism that anything that peregrinates from a standing start is undergoing expedition. the apple commenced in the tree and landed on the earth
- Explains that even if the apple were higher up in the tree, it would still feel this force of magnetization with the earth.
- Explains that newton, upon observing an apple fall from a tree, commenced to cerebrate along the lines of "gravity" and "expedition due to gravity".
- Explains newton's authentically brilliant insight: if the force of gravity reaches to the top of the highest tree, might it not reach even further; in particular, could it reach all the way into the orbit of moon about the earth.
- Analyzes how newton concluded that the moon felt the earth's alluring force and that it was falling towards earth, but there was a substantial reason why it didn't crash down.
- Explains newton's cerebrating on mass and weight, stating that mass is constant for an object, but weight depends on the location of the object.
- Explains that the equation utilizing numbers for your mass and that of the earth will give you your weight, quantified in newton's.
- Explains newton's formula has engendered the path of every astronaut and the orbit of each satellite from which we benefit — whether for communications, earth observation, scientific research around earth or other planets.
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