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Are Newton's Law driving you nuts?
Check out the following links
to "The Physics Classroom" and see if you can put those
laws in perspective.
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Newton's
First Law
An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends
to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless
acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Demonstration
1 Demonstration
2 Demonstration
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Newton's
Second Law
The acceleration of an object depends directly upon the net force
acting upon the object, and inversely upon the mass of the object.
The
Misconception
Freefall
Demo.
Freefall
Demo #2 |
Newton's
Third Law
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Find
the pairs
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