Mathematical advances continue to be made. Many mathematicians have come and gone since the mid-1600s. But none of them can compare to Sir Isaac Newton. Newton had a great influence on his life and work. Isaac Newton was born in Wools-Thorpe, Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day 1642. Newton was a premature baby born following the death of his father. It was not thought that Newton would survive. Newton’s mother soon married a new man, who was not fond of Newton. Newton’s grandmother was sent to him so that there would be no confusion. Newton moved back to his hometown 11 years after the death of his stepfather. Around the age of 12, he briefly attended King’s School, Grantham. In 1658 when his mom became widowed yet again, his mother moved to their hometown. She recalled him from his school and encouraged him to become an agriculturalist. Around age 16, he left school to help his mother with her farm.
Newton began his schooling slowly, but soon he became a leader of the class and excelled in his studies. Newton had a lot of talent and was always able to make the most out of it. In only half a year at King’s School he realized that farming was what he wanted to do. Newton quits school at 16 to work on a farm. Newton began his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. Newton continued to study at Trinity after he received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1665. In 1665 a deadly plague forced the college’s closure. Newton returned to Woolsthorpe after the college reopened.
Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667 and completed his master’s requirements quickly. During his time at Cambridge, Newton made some of his greatest innovations and discoveries. Newton developed the theory that universal gravity. Newton began to wonder, as he watched a falling apple, if it was the exact same force that held the moon’s orbit. Newton’s law states that the gravitational force is dependent on each object’s mass. Newton did not doubt gravity’s existence, but whether it is gravity pulling the moon into its orbit. Newton wondered, with his studies and experiments, if gravity was the force responsible for all motions on Earth and in Space. Newton’s calculations didn’t match up to his theories after many errors and trials. Newton realized his mistake after he realised that the formula he used to calculate the Earth diameter was incorrect. Isaac Newton’s three laws created to make sense out of his studies.
Newton’s First Law of Motion is that objects tend to stay in their current state, unless a force is applied. The law of inertia is another name for this law. A moving object wants to go on forever, however in reality they stop. It may stop because of air, gravity, the surface that it is travelling on, or other factors. In space, there are no obstacles to stop an object from moving, so it will continue moving forever. Many scientists refer to inertia as laziness, because the object is either too lazy or too lazy not to move. In order to overcome inertia, you’d have to apply a force that is not balanced. Newton’s law of motion also describes the tendency for objects to continue doing what they do.
Newton’s Second Law of Motion determines, in addition, the relationship between mass, acceleration, and force. Force is the product between mass and acceleration. To accelerate an object, you must apply force. The greater the force applied, the quicker you will accelerate. A force’s amount is dependent on an object’s mass. The more mass you have, the greater the force required to move the object. The equation of force is F=ma. It is always in newton that force is measured. Isaac Newton was the man who named it. One newton = one kilogram x one meter / second / second. The acceleration is measured in m/s. Newton’s Second Law of Motion says that you can find the force by multiplying the mass of the object by its acceleration.
Newton’s last and final law is that there is a reaction for every act. Think about dropping a tennis ball to the ground. The ball’s impact on the ground causes the floor to move downward, and the floor then pushes it back up. The objects will have equal forces towards each other, regardless of their mass. Newton’s law of third motion states that the gravitational forces between the earth, moon and other objects are the same, despite their obvious differences in mass. Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that all actions have equal and opposite reactions, where mass does not matter.
Isaac Newton’s unique philosophy is based on these three laws.