 | D.A. Vallado - Technology & Engineering - 2001 - 1002 pages
...of motion: 1. Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right [straight] line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. 2. The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed and is made in the direction... | |
 | Carlos I. Calle - Science - 2001 - 682 pages
...motion: Newton 's First Law: Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. Newton's Second Law: The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force... | |
 | Hugh G. Gauch - Science - 2003 - 458 pages
...an introduction and some definitions, and then states the following three axioms or laws of motion: I. Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or...to change that state by forces impressed thereon. II. The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the... | |
 | M. Hulswit - Philosophy - 2002 - 278 pages
...interacting according to his three famous laws of motion, which are stated in implicitly causal terms: (1) Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of...to change that state by forces impressed thereon. (2) The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 518 pages
...accord and without some other thing which impedes it." 19 Newton, Principia, 3rd edn, vol. i, p. 19. "Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of...to change that state by forces impressed thereon." It is interesting to note that both Descartes and Newton were anticipated by Aristotle, who in his... | |
 | J.J. Kockelmans - History - 1993 - 236 pages
...seventeenth century mechanics. It is stated as follows: AXIOM I: Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless...compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. The content of this axiom is contained in the third definition that precedes the axiom. It... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Philosophy of nature - 2002 - 400 pages
...Newton took Galileo's discovery to be founded on two laws: (i) that every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless...compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it; (ii) that the change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is nude... | |
 | John Shand - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 356 pages
...with scientific laws of nature: Newton's first law of motion, "Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless...compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it", is not a law applicable only to particular bodies, or bodies considered from a certain point... | |
 | Morton Tavel - Science - 2002 - 284 pages
...the following words: Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. This is called the law of inertia, and to many it seems to be no more than a special case... | |
 | E.B. Ruttkamp - Mathematics - 2002 - 236 pages
...three laws of motion: • Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it. • Change of motion is proportional to the force impressed, and is made in the direction of... | |
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Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. 
