NEWTON’S LAW OF MOTION

• Newton's Laws of Motion

• There was this fellow in England named Sir
Isaac Newton. A little bit stuffy, bad hair, but
quite an intelligent guy. He worked on
developingcalculus and physics at the same
time. During his work, he came up with the
three basic ideas that are applied to the
physics of most motion (NOTmodern physics
). The ideas have been tested and verified so
many times over the years, that scientists now
call them Newton's Three Laws of Motion. 
An object at rest will remain at
According to Newton's first law...

rest unless acted on by an

unbalanced force. An object in
motion continues in motion
with the same speed and in the
same direction unless acted
upon by an unbalanced
force.This law is often called 
"the law of inertia".
• What does this mean?
This means that there is a natural
tendency of objects to keep on doing what
they're doing. All objects resist changes
in their state of motion. In the absence
of an unbalanced force, an object in
motion will maintain this state of motion.
 Let's study the "skater" to
understand this a little better
• What is the motion in this picture? 

What is the unbalanced force in this

picture? 

What happened to the skater in this

picture? 
Newtons’s 1 Law and You st

Don’t let this be you. Wear seat belts.

Because of inertia, objects (including you) resist changes
in their motion. When the car going 80 km/hour is stopped
by the brick wall, your body keeps moving at 80 m/hour.
 2 ND
LAW OF MOTION

Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the

mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force
needed (to accelerate the object).
 What does this mean?
Everyone unconsiously knows the Second
Law. Everyone knows that heavier
objects require more force to move the
same distance as lighter objects.
                       
       

                                

 
   
                        
       
 
  
                               
EX1. So,if you kick a ball, you need to exert
great amount of force so that the ball will
However, the Second Law gives us an
exact relationship between force, mass,
and acceleration. It can be expressed as a
mathematical equation:

                                                                
FORCE = MASS times ACCELERATION

(The force of an object is equal to its mass times its

acceleration.)
This is an example of how Newton's Second Law works:

                                                                                                                                 

Mike's car, which weighs 1,000 kg, is out of gas. Mike is

trying to push the car to a gas station, and he makes the car
go 0.05 m/s/s. Using Newton's Second Law, you can
compute how much force Mike is applying to the car.

                                                                                              
                                               
Answer = 50 newtons
For every action there
is an equal and
opposite re-action.
This means that for every force there
is a reaction force that is equal in
size, but opposite in direction. That is
to say that whenever an object
pushes another object it gets pushed
back in the opposite direction equally
hard.
 The rocket's action is to push down on the
ground with the force of its powerful
engines, and the reaction is that the ground
pushes the rocket upwards with an equal
force.
 
UP,
UP,
and
               
AWAY
3 Law
rd

The reaction of a rocket is

an application of the third
law of motion. Various
fuels are burned in the
engine, producing hot
gases.
The hot gases push against
the inside tube of the rocket
and escape out the bottom
of the tube. As the gases
move downward, the rocket
moves in the opposite
direction.
3 Law
rd

Flying gracefully
through the air, birds
depend on Newton’s
third law of motion. As
the birds push down on
the air with their wings,
the air pushes their
wings up and gives
them lift.