Newtons Childhood
When was he born?
January 4th, 1643
What did he study when he went back to school?
Kepler and Galileo as well as the contributions of classic scholars.
What caused him to go home for 18 months?
The bubonic plague
What was his second law of motion?
A force applied to an object at rest causes it to accelerate in the direction of the force (F=m x a).
Where was he born?
Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Where did he go to college?
Trinity College
When did this plague occur?
1665-1666
What was his third law of motion?
When two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.
How long was his father in his life?
Not at all, dies three months before birth.
When did he go to college?
1661
What branch of math did he come up with?
Calculus
What was his first law of motion?
If a body is at rest or moving at a constant speed in a straight line, it will remain at rest or keep moving in a straight line at constant speed unless it is acted upon by a force.
What did he love doing at the age of five?
Drawing and making mechanical devices.
What did he graduate specializing with?
mathematics and philosophy.
Where did he work for the rest of his life after his prime?
Went to trinity college and spent the rest of his life working there as a respected scholar.
Whats another name for his first law of motion?
Law of inertia
True or False: He never met his grandmother
False, grandmother took care of him for most of his childhood.
What other school did he go to?
Cambridge
What did his law of gravitation state?
Anther 500: for equation
Any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them.
Force= Gravitational constant multiplied by the product of the masses and divided by the square of the distance
Whats another name for his third law?
The Law Of action and reaction