ABSTRACT
Newton’s Laws of Motion Despite the inaccuracy of ascribing the following laws to just one person, Sir Isaac Newton’s publication of one of the milestones of science, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687), has since caused his name to be connected with three laws of motion. Stated here without the full mathematical rigor they would receive in a physics text, they are:
1. If a mass is stationary it will remain stationary, or if a mass is moving with a constant velocity it will continue to do so, until any net force acts on the mass.
