The story of Isaac Newton's life. He discovered gravity, and the laws of motion that underpin much of modern physics. Yet he ...

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 ...

'Unchanging motion' is when the body is at rest or is moving with a steady speed in a straight line. Balanced forces are responsible for unchanging motion. Balanced forces are forces where the effect ...

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 ...

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 ...

A columnist recalls planting poplar trees 50 years ago and how removing them inspired a personal twist on Newton’s third law.

For more than 10 years, Guoliang Huang, the Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering at the University of Missouri, has been investigating the unconventional properties of "metamaterials"—an ...

Force equals mass times acceleration! Dr. Rob and the Crew put Newton's Second Law of Motion to the test with scooters, carts, bowling balls, and even a marshmallow catapult. From tug of war to ...