Newton s second law is a quantitative description of the changes that a force can produce on the motion of a body.
Sir isaac newton 2nd law of motion.
It is used to predict how an object will accelerated magnitude and direction in the presence of an unbalanced force.
Often expressed as the equation a fnet m or rearranged to fnet m a the equation is probably the most important equation in all of mechanics.
More precisely the first law defines the force qualitatively the second law offers a quantitative measure of the force and the third asserts that a single isolated.
He developed the theories of gravitation in 1666 when he was only 23 years old.
This one volume described the main rules still used in classical mechanics today.
Sir isaac newton first presented his three laws of motion in the principia mathematica philosophiae naturalis in 1686.
Let us assume that we have an airplane at a point 0 defined by its location x0 and time t0.
Momentum is defined to be the mass m of an object times its velocity v.
His second law defines a force to be equal to the change in momentum with a change in time.
The momentum of a body is equal to the product of its mass and its velocity.
Some twenty years later in 1686 he presented his three laws.
Sir isaac newton introduced the three laws of motion in 1687 in his book entitled philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica or simply the principia.
Newton worked in many areas of mathematics and physics.
Newton s laws of motion are three physical laws that together laid the foundation for classical mechanics they describe the relationship between a body and the forces acting upon it and its motion in response to those forces.
The same book also discussed the theory of gravity.
Newton s second law describes the affect of net force and mass upon the acceleration of an object.