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Have We Been Misinterpreting Newton’s First Law for 300 Years?

For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a new study suggests that a small mistranslation in its original English ...
PBS

Newton's First Law of Motion

Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! 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 ...
Yahoo

We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For Almost 300 Years

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing them three centuries later. Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three ...
Reason

"We Need Not Apply Newton's First Law of Motion to Legal Precedent"

An interesting turn of phrase from Tuesday's concurrence by Judge Michael Catlett, joined by Judge James Morse Jr., in Hintzen-Gaines v. Adelson. The specific issue the two judges (who actually formed ...
Hackaday

Mistranslation Of Newton’s First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years

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 ...
Lifehacker

Newton’s First Law Applies to Productivity Too

There’s plenty of chatter and research surrounding the so-called “laws” of productivity, but even the laws we use to govern other areas of our lives can be applicable when there are things that need ...
American Institute of Physics

Introducing Laws of Physics

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...