Diego Sanchez

Class-Physics-1010
Professor-M.Weiss
Group Presentation

His law of universal gravitation laid forth the theory that all particles in the universe
exerted some gravitational force. In Newton's view, gravitational force was everywhere, from an
apple falling from a tree to the moon being kept in orbit by its mutual attraction with earth. While
imperfect, his law was later altered by Einstein's theory of relativity Newtons conception of
universal gravitation dominated physics for more than two centuries.
In his student years, Newton performed experiments in optics examining the nature
of light. He found that normal, or "white," light is actually made up of a spectrum of colors. He
used prisms to break apart white light into a rainbow of colors and recombine the disparate
colors into white light. Despite his breakthroughs in optics, Newton did not publish his
conclusions until 1704, in "Opticks," which was considered his second great scientific treatise
Newton also created calculus as a response to the insufficiencies in mathematics of the
time. Originally called the fluxions or the "method of series and fluxions," calculus provided
methods for solving complex problems about orbits, curves and other issues that classical
geometry could not solve
In calculus, Newton laid the basic framework for understanding these problems and for
making the calculations described by his laws of motion and gravitation.
By 1666, Newton had even laid the blueprints for his three laws of motion, still recited by
physics students everywhere:

An object will remain in a state of inertia unless acted upon by force.

The relationship between acceleration and applied force is F=ma.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What Newton didn't understand up to that point, and would spend the next two decades studying,
was how those laws of motion related to the Earth, Moon and Sun a concept he called
"gravity."
Newton found evidence of design in the specifics of our Solar System, such as the fact that the
orbits of the planets are all in the same direction and plane. Newton argued that the eccentric
orbits of comets alone reveal the existence of a creator and described God as "an intelligent and
powerful being.

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