Wednesday, September 9, 2020

List of Newton's laws of motion

This post is a list of Newton's laws of motion. Isaac Newton published the 3 laws in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). The are 3 laws listed below. Sources: NASA

  1. "Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it."
  2. "Force is equal to the change in momentum per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration."
  3. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."