How Did Isaac Newton Impact The World

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It is no doubt that Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most important scientist in the world. Newton was the first person to develop a form a theory for calculus, including the principles of inertia, action, reaction and acceleration and also was the first to describe the force of gravity. These discoveries by Newton are very important, which is mainly why he has an immense impact. A noticeable impact from Newton is the Newton's Laws of Motion. This is very beneficial, mostly in mechanics and space travel. Basically, these laws affect our lives every time we move or we see something moving. The first law is every object will remain at rest or constant speed unless an unbalanced force is applied. Because of Newton, seatbelts in cars are mandatory …show more content…

The invention of seatbelt heavily decreased the number of deaths on roads, so I would say Newton is a significant impact to our lives. It is thanks to his awareness of this law, we are all safe on the roads, even in an accident. Another impact is now we know that things cannot start, stop, or change direction all by themselves. It takes some force acting on them from the outside to cause such a change, so luck cannot help you on this one, because it requires force. This law has a large amount of impact that all of it can’t all be described. The Second Law of Motion is acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass, the greater the amount of force needed to accelerate the object. It can also be expressed by F = m x a. This law is used every time you push something. It is common sense that when you push something heavier you will have to apply more …show more content…

The Third Law of Motion is for every action, there is an equal opposite reaction. This law significantly helped our society in the engineering area. Planes and rockets fly thank to the principle stated in this law. In an airplane, the propellers push air backward (action) but the propellers are also pushed forward (reaction) and that's why an airplane moves forward. The same principle is also applied to the wings of a plane to lift. Lift is generated by the wing of the aircraft. In fact, the air moving past the wings is deflected downward by the shape and the motion of the wing. The wing exerts a force, or action, on the air and in reaction the wing is pushed upward by the air. Before Newton and calculus, the study of the motions of the planets was at best limited to kinematics: you could observe the motions and try to describe them. As to what caused those motions, there could only be speculation. Newton produced a dynamic theory: some simple physical laws that explained the motions as the result of the same forces that act on an apple falling from a