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  2. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    Newton's laws are often stated in terms of point or particle masses, that is, bodies whose volume is negligible. This is a reasonable approximation for real bodies when the motion of internal parts can be neglected, and when the separation between bodies is much larger than the size of each.

  3. Bucket argument - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument (also known as Newton's bucket) is a thought experiment that was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies.

  4. Newton's cradle - Wikipedia

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    This and Newton's law for motion (=) are applied to each ball, giving five simple but interdependent differential equations that can be solved numerically. When the fifth ball begins accelerating , it is receiving momentum and energy from the third and fourth balls through the spring action of their compressed surfaces.

  5. Classical mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727), an influential figure in the history of physics and whose three laws of motion form the basis of classical mechanics Newton founded his principles of natural philosophy on three proposed laws of motion : the law of inertia , his second law of acceleration (mentioned above), and the law of action and reaction ...

  6. Newtonian dynamics - Wikipedia

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    However, in mathematics Newton's laws of motion can be generalized to multidimensional and curved spaces. Often the term Newtonian dynamics is narrowed to Newton's second law m a = F {\displaystyle \displaystyle m\,\mathbf {a} =\mathbf {F} } .

  7. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia

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    Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (English: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) [1] often referred to as simply the Principia (/ p r ɪ n ˈ s ɪ p i ə, p r ɪ n ˈ k ɪ p i ə /), is a book by Isaac Newton that expounds Newton's laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.

  8. Newton's law - Wikipedia

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    In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Newton's law may refer to: Newton's laws of motion; Newton's law of universal gravitation ...

  9. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    There are two main descriptions of motion: dynamics and kinematics.Dynamics is general, since the momenta, forces and energy of the particles are taken into account. In this instance, sometimes the term dynamics refers to the differential equations that the system satisfies (e.g., Newton's second law or Euler–Lagrange equations), and sometimes to the solutions to those equations.