Newton's laws of motion

Newton's laws of motion are three scientific laws which Isaac Newton discovered concerning the behaviour of moving bodies. These laws are fundamental to classical mechanics.

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Scientific laws - Isaac Newton - Moving bodies - Classical mechanics

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Newton first published these laws in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) and used them to prove many results concerning the motion of physical objects. In the third volume (of the text), he showed how, combined with his law of universal gravitation, the laws of motion would explain Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - 1687 - Law of universal gravitation - Kepler's laws of planetary motion

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:Note: In this article, vector quantities are written in bold whereas scalar ones are in italics.

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Vector - Scalar

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