While attending physics class today, Jon learned about the story of a brilliant scientist, Sir Isaac Newton among with one of his most famous questions, “If the apple falls, does the moon also falls?”
Born on December 25, 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned english physicists and mathematicians, who was best known for his law of gravitational forces. In 1665, as young Isaac sits under an apple tree, he realized the fall of an apple. He proclaimed that the force pulling the apple onto the ground and the force keeping the moon in orbit around earth are the same. In addition, he came up with the equation: Fg=Gm1m2/r^2, and named this special force, gravity. However, along with his law of gravitational forces, came a question: “If the apple falls does the moon also falls?”
The answer to the previous question is, yes, if the apple falls then the moon also falls. In fact, this question of, “If the apple falls, does the moon also fall?” give birth to physics! Like an apple, the moon also experienced free fall. Due to the fact that the earth is round, if you throw something with a certain amount of force applied after a point, it is going to keep on orbiting around a …show more content…
“ It also help us explain our surroundings. Without physic, we would be surround with many mysteries. For example, back in the Middle Ages, people believe in things such as: the Earth is the center of the Universe, heavier objects falls faster than lighter objects, and that all objects falls with constant velocities. However, these hypotheses were soon proven wrong with the question, ‘If the apple falls, does the moon also falls?’ The moon is constantly falling toward the Earth. Yet, it does not hit the Earth because it is orbiting around it. In fact, while Newton was calculating the trajectories of the moon, he was able to create a new form of mathematics we called,
Born on December 25, 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned english physicists and mathematicians, who was best known for his law of gravitational forces. In 1665, as young Isaac sits under an apple tree, he realized the fall of an apple. He proclaimed that the force pulling the apple onto the ground and the force keeping the moon in orbit around earth are the same. In addition, he came up with the equation: Fg=Gm1m2/r^2, and named this special force, gravity. However, along with his law of gravitational forces, came a question: “If the apple falls does the moon also falls?”
The answer to the previous question is, yes, if the apple falls then the moon also falls. In fact, this question of, “If the apple falls, does the moon also fall?” give birth to physics! Like an apple, the moon also experienced free fall. Due to the fact that the earth is round, if you throw something with a certain amount of force applied after a point, it is going to keep on orbiting around a …show more content…
“ It also help us explain our surroundings. Without physic, we would be surround with many mysteries. For example, back in the Middle Ages, people believe in things such as: the Earth is the center of the Universe, heavier objects falls faster than lighter objects, and that all objects falls with constant velocities. However, these hypotheses were soon proven wrong with the question, ‘If the apple falls, does the moon also falls?’ The moon is constantly falling toward the Earth. Yet, it does not hit the Earth because it is orbiting around it. In fact, while Newton was calculating the trajectories of the moon, he was able to create a new form of mathematics we called,