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AI GeneratedNewton's laws of motion are three physical laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws provide the basis for Newtonian mechanics and can be paraphrased as follows:
- First Law (Principle of Inertia): A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless it is acted upon by a force. This law suggests that a body's motion preserves the status quo, but external forces can change this state.
- Second Law: At any instant of time, the net force on a body is equal to the body's acceleration multiplied by its mass, or equivalently, the rate at which the body's momentum is changing with time.
- Third Law: If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directions. Newton's laws were first stated by Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, originally published in
- They serve as a foundation for classical mechanics and are applicable to a wide range of physical systems. However, limitations to Newton's laws have been discovered, as new theories are necessary when objects move at very high speeds (special relativity), are very massive (general relativity), or are very small (quantum mechanics).[1][2][3]
- Second Law: At any instant of time, the net force on a body is equal to the body's acceleration multiplied by its mass, or equivalently, the rate at which the body's momentum is changing with time.
- Third Law: If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directions. Newton's laws were first stated by Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, originally published in
- They serve as a foundation for classical mechanics and are applicable to a wide range of physical systems. However, limitations to Newton's laws have been discovered, as new theories are necessary when objects move at very high speeds (special relativity), are very massive (general relativity), or are very small (quantum mechanics).[1][2][3]
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