Laws
How many laws of motion did Newton create?
What is: 3 Laws? These laws explain the relationship between a physical object and the forces acting upon it. They are still respected and taught today.
At a young age, what occupation did Newton’s mother force him to quit school to pursue?
What is: Farming? He was 15 or 16 at this time, and he hated it.
True or False: Newton had terrible handwriting.
What is: False? Unlike the common stereotype for geniuses, Newton’s handwriting was mostly always clear and legible.
What is Newton's first name?
What is Isaac
True or False: Newton discovered universal gravitation
What is: False Towards the end of his life, Newton told several people this myth in order to shore up his life legacy. The concept of gravity came 20 years later, although Newton did make some key discoveries, including that the apple fell straight.
An object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it. What law is this?
What is: Newton's 1st law? (Also known as the Law of Inertia, "An object at rest stays at rest.")
Which University did Issac Newton go to: TCNJ, Trinity Cambridge University, or Yale?
What is: Trinity Cambridge University? Located in England, where he aspired to study law. His mother refused to pay for his education, so he worked as a servant to pay for it.
What is Issac Newton mostly commonly known for inventing?
What is: Calculus? Newton came to calculus as part of his investigations in physics and geometry.
What Fruit fell on Newton's Head
What is Apple
What is Issac Newton mostly commonly known for inventing?
What is Calculus
When two objects interact, they apply forces to each other of equal magnitude and opposite direction. What law is this ?
What is: Newton's 3rd law? "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
True or False: Newton Was an Alchemist
What is: True. Alchemical manuscripts make up roughly one tenth of the ten million words of private writing that Newton left preceding his death. Alchemy is an ancient branch of natural philosophy.
What is Isaac Newton's astrological sign
What is: Capricorn? He was born January 4, 1643.
What was the “pebble by the seashore” Newton looked for, for half his life as by Morton Opperly?
What is the Philosopher's Stone
What is the telescope he made that separated colors?
What is the refracting telescope?
The force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. What law is this?
What is: Newton's 2nd Law? (Force= m*a)
What plague broke out rapidly in 1665 and 1666 that forced Newton to quit studying at his university?
What is: The Bubonic Plague? Also known as the Black Death, it was a deadly infection spread to humans by fleas and rodents that caused the death of at least 25 million people.
Who knighted Newton in 1705?
Who is: Queen Anne? This was in honor of his political work, which some consider ironic
Who did Newton consider his rival?
Who is Gottfried Leibniz
Did this method to cure the bubonic plague, suggested by Newton work, “the best is a toad suspended by the legs in a chimney for three days, which at last vomited up earth with various insects in it, onto a dish of yellow wax, and shortly after died.”
No
What year were Newton's 3 laws of motion created?
What is: 1686? He presented these laws in his book, the “Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis," aka The Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy.
What religion was Issac Newton’s family?
What is: Puritan? The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement who sought to purify the Church of England's practices during the 16th and 17th centuries.
What is the name of the concept presented to Newton for a theoretically fast means of transportation?
A theoretical means of transportation for purposes of commuting between two points on the surface of a sphere, by following a straight tunnel connecting the two points through the interior of the sphere.
What is: the Gravity Train?
What is the name of this theorem, used in finding the slopes of curves and areas under curves, that Newton discovered?
(a+b)n= ∑nr=0nCr an-rbr
What is the Binomial Theorem
This invention is a navigational tool that measures the angle between the horizon and a celestial object, like the sun or a star, in order to estimate the position of a ship.
What is the Sextant.