Learn about Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion. Get an overview of each of Newton's three laws, see how they are related to each other, and get...
Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation states that all objects with mass experience a force of attraction with all other objects with mass. The strength of this attraction varies based on the mass of the objects and the distance of separation the two objects are from each other. The equa...
Aristotle, the famous Greek thinker, had formulated certain ideas of motion. Eventually, Galileo came up with the idea of inertia which proved Aristotle’s mechanics wrong. Physicist Isaac Newton built on Galileo’s ideas to create the famous three laws
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Newton’s laws of motion, three statements describing the physical relations between the forces acting on a body and the motion of the body. Isaac Newton developed his three laws in order to explain why planetary orbits are ellipses rather than circles,
Convection, process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water. Natural convection results from the tendency of most fluids to expand when heated—i.e., to become less dense and to rise as a result of the increased bu
Momentum, product of the mass of a particle and its velocity. Momentum is a vector quantity; i.e., it has both magnitude and direction. Isaac Newton’s second law of motion states that the time rate of change of momentum is equal to the force acting on t
Whether we are aware of them or not, Newton’s laws of motion are at play in nearly every physical action of our daily lives. The First Law Newton's rings Illustration depicting the phenomenon of Newton's rings.(more) Newton’s first law states that unless a body (such as a rubber ...
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Although it is not a real force according toNewton’s laws, the centrifugal-force concept is a useful one. For example, when analyzing the behaviour of the fluid in acream separatoror acentrifuge, it is convenient to study the fluid’s behaviour relative to the rotating container rather than...