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Guiding principles
While there have been numerous contributors to people's knowledge of forces, English scientist Isaac Newton (1642–1727) formulated the laws of motion, the rules that explain how forces work. As he was working on the laws of motion, Newton also explained the effect of gravity throughout the universe. In 1687 Newton published his landmark work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which gave people a new understanding of the universe and laid the foundation for the development of physics.
Newton developed three laws of motion to explain forces:
First law of motion:An object at rest or moving in a certain direction and speed will remain at rest or moving in the same motion and speed unless acted upon by a force. With no force, an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object...
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