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Newton’s Laws

of
Motion
Explain the
First Law of Motion
Explain the First Law of
Motion
• An object will not change its motion
unless a force acts on it.
• An object that is not moving remains
at rest until something pushes or pulls
it.
• An object that is moving remains
moving until something pushes or
pulls it.
Explain the First Law of
Motion
• The force that causes objects to slow
down is FRICTION.
• Friction always acts opposite to the
direction of motion.
• To keep an object moving when
friction is acting on it, you have to
keep pushing or pulling on the object
to overcome the frictional force.
Explain the First Law of
Motion
• All objects resist having their motion
changed.
• This tendency to resist a change in
motion is called inertia.
• The more mass an object has, the
greater its inertia.
See Examples of the 1st Law of
Motion Here:

http://www.jracademy.com/
~mbasteaf/newton/first/index.html
Review the First Law here:

http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/
science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/
newtons.htm
More information about
Newton’s First Law of Motion
may be found here:
http://www.beyondbooks.com/psc91/
4a.asp
Explain the
Second Law of Motion
Explain the Second Law of Motion

• A change in motion occurs only if a


net force is exerted on an object.
• A net force changes the velocity of
the object, and causes it to accelerate.
Explain the Second Law of Motion
• If an object is acted upon by a net force, the
change in velocity will be in the direction of
the net force.
• Acceleration can be calculated from the
formula:
Explain the Second Law of Motion
• The acceleration of an object depends on its
mass.
• The more mass an object has or the more
inertia it has, the harder it is to accelerate .
• More mass means less acceleration if the force acting
on the objects is the same.
Explain the Second Law of Motion
• If a stands for the acceleration, Fnet for the net force, and m
for the mass, this formula can be written as follows:

• In this formula the force is in newtons, the mass is in


kilograms, and the acceleration is in meters per second
squared.
See Examples of the 2nd Law of
Motion Here:

http://www.jracademy.com/
~mbasteaf/newton/second/
index.html
Review the Second Law here:
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/
science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/
newton2.htm
More information about
Newton’s Second Law of
Motion may be found here:

http://www.beyondbooks.com/
psc91/4d.asp
Explain the
Third Law of Motion
Explain the Third Law of
Motion
• When one object exerts a force on a
second object, the second object exerts
an equal force in the opposite direction
on the first object.
• The force exerted by the first object is
the action force.
• The force exerted by the second object
is the reaction force.
See Examples of the 3rd Law of
Motion Here:

http://www.jracademy.com/
~mbasteaf/newton/third/index.html
Review the Third Law here:
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/
science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/
newton3.htm
More information about
Newton’s Third Law of Motion
may be found here:

http://www.beyondbooks.com/
psc91/4f.asp

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