SIR ISAAC NEWTONBy Zach Short

http://www.gap-system.org/~history/PictDisplay/Newton.html

Newton’s Life

Isaac was born on Christmas day in 1642 Newton started out his childhood as a

farmer, an occupation that he did not enjoy

Newton then went on to attend Trinity College where he was a poor student

Then event that turned things around for him was when he left for Cambridge University

After struggling through school he succeeded Isaac Barrow as Cambridge’s professor of Mathematics

Conflict with Hooke

After he was elected into the Royal Society he released a controversial paper on the nature of color

A few disputes passed and then Newton withdrew himself from the argument

Then he came out with another paper which had supposedly plagiarized Hooke, Newton again withdrew from the argument

Newton and Leibniz

This conflict started when Leibniz began publishing papers about Calculus almost 20 years after Newton

Leibniz was accused of borrowing some of Newton’s ideas and the charges escalated to plagiarism

It is now generally accepted that they are co-founders of Calculus

Methodus fluxionum et serierum infinitarum (The Method of

Fluxions and Infinite Series) Newton’s most popular idea was to think

of a curve as the motion of a particle so that the second and third derivates were always velocity and acceleration

Newton also developed the little o notation where o is an infinitely small number

The last method was the “method of first and last ratios” which is similar to limits

Newton’s Laws of Motion

Newton’s First Law of MotionEvery object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

From http://science.howstuffworks.com/newton-law-of-motion1.htm

Newton’s Second Law

Force equals mass times acceleration (F = ma)": the net force on an object is equal to the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration

From http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NewtonsSecondLaw/HTMLImages/index.en/popup_1.jpg

Newton’s Third law

To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

From http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/balloon/images/newton.gif

References

Hatch, Dr. Robert A.. “Sir Isaac Newton." Jan 2002 Web.19 May 2009. <http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/01-Courses/current-courses/08sr-newton.htm>.

Schultz, Phill. "Lecture 20 Newton's Invention of calculus.." Web.19 May 2009. <http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~schultz/

3M3/L20Newton.html>.