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A Comparison Of Newton's Three Laws Relation To Force And Motion

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Sir Isaac Newton created three laws that relate to force and motion. People use these laws during everyday activities, but most of the time, no one knows it. Most people are also unaware of how these laws pertain to the human brain. Experiments have proven that the brain is capable of determining the direction of gravity and how an object is likely to fall, which is a major portion in Newton’s laws of motion. Newton’s first law states that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless an unbalanced force acts upon it. Gravity is an example of an unbalanced force; because the brain has the ability to establish the direction of gravity, this is one way that Newton’s laws relate to the brain. Similarly, the brain is also capable of deciding which way an object is likely to fall. An example of how this information pertains to Newton’s first law of motion is if a baseball bat …show more content…

For example, if you had a 10 pound ball and a 30 pound ball, a larger force would need to be applied to the 30 pound ball to accelerate it because it has a larger mass. Acceleration due to gravity is a constant 9.8 meters per second, and because people’s brains can detect the direction of gravity, a person would need to apply a larger force to the 30 pound ball to accelerate it towards the direction of gravity. In comparison, Newton’s second law also relates to the brain because of a person’s ability to determine the direction that an object is likely to fall. For instance, if there was a 5 kilogram tree and a 20 kilogram tree, a person would be able to guess which way the trees would fall because of the force that is applied to them. If the force was wind, a smaller force of wind would need to be exerted onto the 5 kilogram tree to knock it over, and the brain would be capable of estimate which direction the tree would

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