Who invented Newton's law?

Sir Isaac Newton worked in many areas of mathematics and physics. He developed the theories of gravitation in 1666 when he was only 23 years old. In 1686, he presented his three laws of motion in the “Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis.” By developing his three laws of motion, Newton revolutionized science.
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Who discovered the Newton's laws?

Newton's laws of motion, three statements describing the relations between the forces acting on a body and the motion of the body, first formulated by English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton, which are the foundation of classical mechanics.
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Who named Newton's laws?

The three laws of motion were first stated by Isaac Newton in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), originally published in 1687.
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How was Newton's law created?

The story goes that the young Isaac Newton was sitting in his garden when an apple fell on his head and he suddenly came up with his theory of gravity. The tale has been greatly exaggerated over the years, but there is proof that it happened.
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What is Newton's first law called?

The property of a body to remain at rest or to remain in motion with constant velocity is called inertia. Newton's first law is often called the law of inertia.
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What did Isaac Newton discover in 1666?

Also in 1666, he discovered how find the slope of a curve at any point on a curve, by a process he called "fluxions." However, while he mentioned the "fluxions" in a letter to Isaac Barrow in 1669, he did not publish the system until 1704, and so must share credit for the innovation with Leibniz, who developed his own ...
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Who discovered law of inertia?

The law of inertia was first formulated by Galileo Galilei for horizontal motion on Earth and was later generalized by René Descartes.
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Who invented calculus?

Today it is generally believed that calculus was discovered independently in the late 17th century by two great mathematicians: Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
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What does Newton stand for?

The newton is the Standard International (SI) unit of force. In physics and engineering documentation, the term newton(s) is usually abbreviated N. One newton is the force required to cause a mass of one kilogram to accelerate at a rate of one meter per second squared in the absence of other force-producing effects.
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Who is father of physics?

Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the father of modern science".
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Who discovered gravity first before Newton?

In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei found that all objects tend to accelerate equally in free fall. In 1632, he put forth the basic principle of relativity.
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Who is the founder of physics?

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics.
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Who invented gravity?

Far more than just discovering the laws of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton was also responsible for working out many of the principles of visible light and the laws of motion, and contributing to calculus.
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How many Newtons is gravity?

Regarding gravity, at the surface of the earth, there is a downward force of 9.81 Newtons (I deliberately reported only 3 significant digits) on a 1 kg mass. This means that the acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 N/kg, which, if you do proper dimensional analysis, is also 9.81 m/s2.
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What is newton formula?

Force (Newton) = Mass of body × Acceleration. Or, F = [M1 L0 T0] × [M0 L1 T-2] = M1 L1 T-2. Therefore, Newton is dimensionally represented as M1 L1 T-2.
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Who invented zero in world?

"Zero and its operation are first defined by [Hindu astronomer and mathematician] Brahmagupta in 628," said Gobets. He developed a symbol for zero: a dot underneath numbers.
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Who is better Newton or Einstein?

The results showed Newton to be the winner on all counts, although opinion was much closer on the overall contribution to humankind. When asked who made the bigger overall contribution to science the public voted 61.8% for Newton and 38.2% for Einstein and the scientists voted 86.2% for Newton and 13.8% for Einstein.
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What is Galileo law of motion?

Galileo's claim that force causes acceleration is inseparable from his claim that bodies do not require a cause to continue their movement. This latter claim states that a body in motion will continue its motion so long as no factor disturbs that motion. This principle is called the principle of inertia.
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What is Aristotle's law?

Aristotle's Laws of Motion. Nothing moves unless you push it. [ it is moved by a mover] Some motion is natural for the sublunar elements, rectilinear motion to or away from the earth's center for the supralunar quintessence, circular motion. All other motion is violent, and requires a mover.
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What did Galileo say about motion?

Galileo on Motion. “When a mover sets a body in motion he implants into it a certain impetus, that is, a certain force enabling a body to move in the direction in which the mover starts it, be it upwards, downwards, sidewards, or in a circle.
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Is Newton's apple tree still alive?

Sometime between 5 p.m. on Monday, June 7, and 12:45 p.m. on June 8, NIST's official Newton Apple Tree toppled over and died. This arboreal clone from the garden in which Isaac Newton saw an apple fall in 1666 has finally itself succumbed to gravity.”
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Did an apple really fall on Isaac Newton's head?

There's no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton's observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal gravitation.
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How was Newton's first law discovered?

Explanation: Galileo Galilei already noticed that if you have an object, say a wooden block, on a surface and you kick it then it will move and after a while it will stop. But, if you smooth out the surface the object will stop after a longer distance!
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Who discovered black holes?

Roger Penrose (left) proved black holes are real objects. Andrea Ghez (center) and Reinhard Genzel (right) showed that one weighing 4 million times as much as the Sun lurks in the heart of our galaxy. Since Penrose's advances, astronomers have found a wealth of evidence for black holes.
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