Sir Issac Newton

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.....SIR ISSAC NEWTON..... Sir Issac Newton was an english mathmatician and philospher all his life. Many of his discoveries are still used in everyday life. Sir Issac studied at Cambridge under his professor Issac Barrow. Some of his discoveries include Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion, Law of Universal Gravitation, and Quantum Theory. Kepler's Law is summerized in three smaller laws. First law states the shape of each planet's orbit corresponds to the sun at its center, thus an ellipse orbit would be off-center in the shape. The planet's distance from the sun varies as it moves through the orbit. Second law simply states the speed of a planet is determined by the distance from its sun. The closer the planet is, the faster the speed. Third law establishes a relation between the average distance of the planet from the sun and the time to complete one revolution around the sun. The ratio of the semimajor axis is the same for all planets including earth. Issac concluded the attractive force exsiting between any two particles of matter is defined as gravitation. Sir Issac fully recognize the force holding any object to the earth is the same force that holds the moon, planets, and other heavenly bodies in their orbits. Einstein used this discovery to provide a geometric explanation for gravitational phenomea relating to his general theory of relativity in 1916.Newtons law (gravitational constant) usually represented by G is very accurate in early measeurments. Early uses of this law were made by Henry Cavendish. In suitation where very small quanities are involved, and Einsteins theory cant be used to measure, we must use Newtons Quantum Thoery. When dealing with particles on a scale of molecules, atoms, and elementary particles, Quantum Theory is the only tool used to record such measurements. Modern physical theory cocerned with the

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