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What are Newton's laws of motion?
Three basic laws of classical mechanics that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it.
How can Newton's laws of motion be paraphrased?
A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force; When a body is acted upon by a net force, the body's acceleration multiplied by its mass is equal to the net force; If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directions.
When were the three laws of motion first stated and by whom?
Isaac Newton first stated them in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, originally published in 1687.
What did Isaac Newton use the three laws of motion to investigate and explain?
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In what ways has the conceptual content of classical physics been reformulated since Newton's time?
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