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Objects continue to move though the force that started the motion of the body is removed
Galileo
- He disproved the theories made by Aristotle - He made an experiments on an inclined plane & through logical thinking
Galileo said that the smaller the inclination of the plane in relation to the horizontal, the farther the ball will have to roll to reach the same height. He concluded that the smaller the angle of inclination from the horizontal the less is the deceleration of the ball. He reasoned that if that is the case, the deceleration becomes zero when the angle of inclination is zero.
Galileo with his logical mind concluded that a moving body along a horizontal frictionless surface does not require a continuous application of force to maintain its uniform velocity.
ISAAC NEWTON
Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians that ever lived. He was born in England on December 25, 1643. He was born the same year that Galileo died. He lived for 85 years.
He was interested in experimental science thus his studies restated the idea of Galileo and came up with the Law of Inertia
LAW OF INERTIA
An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
This law is the same reason why you should always wear your seatbelt.
However, the Second Law gives us an exact relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. It can be expressed as a mathematical equation:
Mike's car, which weighs 1,000 kg, is out of gas. Mike is trying to push the car to a gas station, and he makes the car go 0.05 m/s/s. Using Newton's Second Law, you can compute how much force Mike is applying to the car.
The rocket's action is to push down on the ground with the force of its powerful engines, and the reaction is that the ground pushes the rocket upwards with an equal force.