09 - Laws of Motion

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LAWS

LAWS OF
OF
MOTION
MOTION
ENDURING
UNDERSTANDING
Forces bring about change in
movement and direction.
Introducing Balanced
Forces
What is Newton’s first
law?

If the resultant force acting on an object is zero,


all the forces are said to be balanced.

This forms the basis of Newton’s first law of


motion, which states:

If the forces on an object are balanced,


the object will continue to do what it is
already doing:
 if the object is stationary, it will remain
stationary
 if the object is moving, it will continue to
move at the same speed and in the same
direction.
Introducing unbalanced
forces
What is Newton’s Second
law?

If the resultant force acting on an object is not


zero, all the forces are said to be unbalanced.
This forms the basis of Newton’s second law of
motion, which states:

If the forces on an object are unbalanced,


two things about the object can change:
 the speed of the object may change – it may
either increase or decrease
 the direction of motion may change.
How is movement calculated from
force?

The resultant force acting on an object is related to


the object’s mass and acceleration. These three
factors are linked by the following equation:

Force = mass x
acceleration
 Resultant force is measured in newtons
 (N).
Mass is measured in kilograms (kg).
 Acceleration is measured in metres per
second per second (m/s2).
F = ma
calculations
SUMMARY
What are Newton’s laws of
motion?

First law of Motion – Law of Inertia


If the forces on an object are balanced,
the object will continue to do what it is
already doing:
 if the object is stationary, it will remain
 stationary
if the object is moving, it will continue to
move at the same speed and in the same
direction.
What are Newton’s laws of
motion?

First law of Motion – Law of Inertia

All objects have inertia, but ……


What are Newton’s laws of
motion?

Second law of Motion – Law of Acceleration

If the forces on an object are unbalanced,


two things about the object can change:
 the speed of the object may change – it may
either increase or decrease
 the direction of motion may change.

Force = mass x
acceleration
First and Second Laws of
Motion

Normal
Normal
Force
Force

Applie
d Frictio
Force n

Weight
Weight
Balanced Forces
=
1st Law Unbalanced Forces =
2nd Law
First and Second Laws of
Motion

Normal
Normal
Force
Force

Applie
d Frictio
Force n

Weight
Weight

**We are studying the forces acting on 1


object/body.
Third Law of
Motion

Force by the shoe

Force by the ball

**We are looking at the forces acted upon by two


objects to each other.
What is Newton’s third
law?

A force cannot exist on its own – there is always a


second force present.
This forms the basis of Newton’s third law of
motion states, which states:

If object A exerts a force on object B, then


object B exerts an equal but opposite
force on object A.
These pairs of forces that act between two objects are
sometimes called action–reaction pairs.
Action–reaction
pairs

Fm on sp = - Fsp on man

FE on Ball = - F B on Earth

Equal forces in opposite direction


Action–reaction
pairs

FE on Ball = - F B on Earth

But how come Earth doesn’t seem


to be pulled by the ball or why is
the pulling not obvious?
Explain using the concept of inertia and law of
acceleration.
Universal
gravitation
Gravity is a universal attraction between any two masses.

It is a relatively weak force, so we only tend to notice


it when one of the masses is very large, like the
Earth or a star, but it is also present on a tiny scale.
Universal
gravitation
Newton reasoned that the gravitational pull exerted
by a body should be proportional to its mass.
F1 F2

F1  m1 F2  m2
But Newton’s third law states that these forces are
equal:
F1 = F2

So the force between the masses must be proportional to bot


Fgrav Fgrav
Fgrav  m1m2

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