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Introduction to newton's three laws of motion:

Sir Isaac newton was one of the greatest scientists. He was born in England. He
was born in the same year that Galileo died. Newton studied in Trinity College,
Cambridge. Newton worked his way in college. His work laid the foundations for
modern science. While Newton was in college, he had new ideas about motion.
He called them ‘Newton’s three laws of motion.
Newton’s laws of motion are used to define the concept of the force and for
describing the motion and also used as the basis of classical mechanics. The
Newton’s laws have been expressed in several different ways over nearly three
centuries.
Newton's three Laws of Motion : first Law
Every object tends to be in the state of rest or of uniform motion, unless an
external force is applied to it .The Newton’s first law of motion is also known as
Law of Inertia. The Newton’s first law mainly deals with forces and changes in
velocity. According to Newton’s first law of motion, ‘ A object will remain at
rest unless a force is applied to change its state of rest. A object will
continue moving with constant speed unless a force is applied to change
its state of motion.”
Newton's three Laws of Motion : Second Law
When a force acts on the mass of a object, an acceleration is produced in the
object due to this force. Greater force is needed to accelerate the object of
greater mass .The Second Law gives the exact relationship between force,
mass, and acceleration. The force is the product of mass of object and the
acceleration produced in the object.
Force = mass x acceleration
for example- 1) a car with mass 150 kg moves with acceleration of 2 m/s^2 .
force applied by car's engine = mass x acceleration = 150 x 2 = 300 N
2 ) if force applied (F) and mass of the object (m) is given, acceleration of
object (a) can be calculated by eq. - a = F/m
Newton's three Laws of Motion : third Law
According to Newton’s third law of motion, For every action force , there is
an equal and opposite re-action force.
It means that for each and every force, the equal reaction force exists in
opposite direction. That is, whenever an object pushes another object it gets
pushed back in the opposite direction equally hard. For example- if you hit the
wall with force F, the wall will hit you back with the same force and you will get
hurt . in this case , force applied by you is action force and force applied by wall
is the reaction force.

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