Isaac Newton's quote captures a genuinely striking contrast between the predictability of nature and the real complexity of ...

Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! Dr. Rob and the Crew use bowling balls, beads, and bottles to investigate Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object at rest stays ...

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...

Like most high schoolers in an intro to physics class, Dan Hoek heard the legendary tale of Isaac Newton and the apple. Here's how the story goes. While resting beneath a tree, Newton watched an apple ...

Some of the most fundamental scientific principals govern how forces can change the way objects move. The rules that affect mass, velocity, inertia, acceleration and gravity were drawn up by Isaac ...