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SIR ISAAC NEWTONBy Zach Short
http://www.gap-system.org/~history/PictDisplay/Newton.html
Newton’s Life
Isaac was born on Christmas day in 1642 Newton started out his childhood as a
farmer, an occupation that he did not enjoy
Newton then went on to attend Trinity College where he was a poor student
Then event that turned things around for him was when he left for Cambridge University
After struggling through school he succeeded Isaac Barrow as Cambridge’s professor of Mathematics
Conflict with Hooke
After he was elected into the Royal Society he released a controversial paper on the nature of color
A few disputes passed and then Newton withdrew himself from the argument
Then he came out with another paper which had supposedly plagiarized Hooke, Newton again withdrew from the argument
Newton and Leibniz
This conflict started when Leibniz began publishing papers about Calculus almost 20 years after Newton
Leibniz was accused of borrowing some of Newton’s ideas and the charges escalated to plagiarism
It is now generally accepted that they are co-founders of Calculus
Methodus fluxionum et serierum infinitarum (The Method of
Fluxions and Infinite Series) Newton’s most popular idea was to think
of a curve as the motion of a particle so that the second and third derivates were always velocity and acceleration
Newton also developed the little o notation where o is an infinitely small number
The last method was the “method of first and last ratios” which is similar to limits
Newton’s Laws of Motion
Newton’s First Law of MotionEvery object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
From http://science.howstuffworks.com/newton-law-of-motion1.htm
Newton’s Second Law
Force equals mass times acceleration (F = ma)": the net force on an object is equal to the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration
From http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NewtonsSecondLaw/HTMLImages/index.en/popup_1.jpg
Newton’s Third law
To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
From http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/balloon/images/newton.gif
References
Hatch, Dr. Robert A.. “Sir Isaac Newton." Jan 2002 Web.19 May 2009. <http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/01-Courses/current-courses/08sr-newton.htm>.
Schultz, Phill. "Lecture 20 Newton's Invention of calculus.." Web.19 May 2009. <http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~schultz/
3M3/L20Newton.html>.