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Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton. By 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

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Sir Isaac Newton

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  1. Sir Isaac Newton By Zach Short http://www.gap-system.org/~history/PictDisplay/Newton.html

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Methodusfluxionum et serieruminfinitarum (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

  6. Newton’s Laws of Motion

  7. Newton’s First Law of Motion Every 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

  8. 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

  9. Newton’s Third law • To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction From http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/balloon/images/newton.gif

  10. References • Hatch, Dr. Robert A.. “Sir Isaac Newton." Jan 2002 Web.19 May 2009. <http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pa ges/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>.

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