Isaac Newton (1642 - 1726/27)

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(Kneller, 1689)

My writings primarily involve work on calculus, which Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently discovered in the late 1600's. Newton published his landmark discovery of calculus in 1711 (Newton, 1711), Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias: cum Enumeratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis, as shown in Figure 1 below.

(Newton, 1711)

Figure 1. Isaac Newton - 1711 - Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias

At the same time (literally), Isaac Newton proposed a new theory regarding motion, which we now call Newton's Three Laws of Motion. As a demonstration of motion (without friction), my animation illustrates each of Newton's Three Laws of Motion (Laws of Motion, 2022):

1. Inertia. Absent of any external applied force, an object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion at a constant speed and direction.

2. Force. Acceleration ($a$) of an object depends on the mass ($m$)of the object and the amount of force ($F$) applied, $F=ma.$

3. Action|Reaction. For every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.