Tag: Newtonian mechanics
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Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
Newton’s law of universal gravitation is a physical law that states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with the force of attraction directly proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. In other words, given any two objects A and B,…
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Newton’s Laws of Motions
Before Einstein, physicists believed that the behaviour of almost everything was controlled by three rules called “Newton’s Laws of Motion”. The basic point was to relate the motion of objects to the “forces” that act on that object. These forces picked out certain reference frames as special (Inertial frames). Newton’s First Law of Motion This…