Early Life
The family members that raised Isaac Newton
What are grandparents?
Newton's mother ordered that he come home from school to learn this family job.
What is farming?
Newton used math to explain his discoveries in this subject with mathematical calculations instead of words
An object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
Newton proved that light is not this
What is white
Newton preferred to be this, meaning by himself
Newton was a Fellow in this social group of scientists, a group in which he became the president later in life
What is the Royal Society?
Newton discovered this branch of math
What is calculus?
An object that has an unbalanced force acting on it will accelerate in the direction of that force.
What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?
Newton used this tool to discover that white light is made up of a blend of colors
What is a prism?
Newton attended this because he was a clever child
What is grammar school?
Newton worked for this institution, where he looked over the money supply for England and went after counterfeiters
What is the mint?
The subjects that use the branch of math that Newton discovered
What are engineering and Science?
If a car is moving forward, and the driver slams on the brakes, you will move in this direction (until your seatbelt stops you) due to Newton's first law of motion.
What is forward?
The place where Newton worked on his experiments with light
Newton studied at this university (and where)
What is Trinity College in Cambridge?
Newton worked as one of these at Trinity College for about 20 years, although he was terrible at it since he was so smart that few students could understand his ideas
Newton wrote this book, explaining many of his mathematical discoveries and their relation to science
Forces always occur in equal and opposite pairs/for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
Newton used his discoveries about the properties of light to invent this, which is used for viewing objects far away (like stars and planets) *in color*
What is the reflecting telescope?
The University closed due to this illness that spread quickly around Europe in the 1600s
Newton's work didn't become popular until this year because he was very secretive and didn't share his discoveries with others
What is 1680?
Newton used this word to describe difficult computations involving numbers that change
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
Newton had disagreements with other scientists. This scientist was chosen by the Royal Society to peer review Newton's work (read it and comment), and Newton was so unhappy with his comments that he tried to resign from the Royal Society (but they ignored him). Then, Newton waited until this scientist was dead before publishing his discoveries in a book called "Opticks" in 1704.
Who is Robert Hooke?