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NEWTON’S
LAWS OF MOTION
Born in 1643 in Woolsthorpe,
England, Sir Isaac Newton
A Short Note On began developing his theories
“ Law II: The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force ”
impress’d; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force
is impress’d.
“ Law III: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the ”
mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and
directed to contrary parts.
IMPORTANCE AND RANGE OF VALIDITY
Newton’s laws were verified by experiment and observation for over 200 years, and they are
excellent approximations at the scales and speeds of everyday life. Newton’s laws of motion,
together with his law of universal gravitation and the mathematical techniques of calculus,
provided for the first time a unified quantitative explanation for a wide range of physical
phenomena.Newton’s laws are inappropriate for use in certain circumstances, most notably at
very small scales, very high speeds.the laws cannot be used to explain phenomena such as
conduction of electricity in a semiconductor, optical properties of substances, errors in
non-relativistically corrected GPS systems and superconductivity.In quantum mechanics,
concepts such as force, momentum, and position are defined by linear operators that operate on
the quantum state; at speeds that are much lower than the speed of light, Newton’s laws are just
as exact for these operators as they are for classical objects.
RELATIONSHIP TO THE CONSERVATION
LAWS
In modern physics, the laws of conservation of momentum, energy, and angular
momentum are of more general validity than Newton’s laws, since they apply to
both light and matter, and to both classical and non-classical physics.This can be
stated simply, “Momentum, energy and angular momentum cannot be created or
destroyed.”Newton stated the third law within a world-view that assumed
instantaneous action at a distance between material particles. However, he was
prepared for philosophical criticism of this action at a distance, and it was in this
context that he stated the famous phrase “I feign no hypotheses“.The discovery
of the second law of thermodynamics by Carnot in the 19th century showed that
not every physical quantity is conserved over time, thus disproving the validity of
inducing the opposite metaphysical view from Newton’s laws.
THEORIES
THERMODYNAMICS
In statistical physics, the kinetic theory of gases applies Newton's laws of motion to large numbers
(typically on the order of Avogadro's number) of particles. Kinetic theory can explain, for example, the
pressure that a gas exerts upon the container holding it as the aggregate of many impacts of atoms, each
imparting a tiny amount of momentum.
ELECTROMAGNETISM
Newton's three laws can be applied to phenomena involving electricity and magnetism, though
subtleties and caveats exist. Coulomb's law for the electric force between two stationary, electrically
charged bodies has much the same mathematical form as Newton's law of universal gravitation: the force
is proportional to the product of the charges, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between
them, and directed along the straight line between them
QUANTUM MECHANISM