laws of motion

American  

noun

1. Mechanics. the mechanical principles that govern the movement of objects, especially the three fundamental laws formulated by Sir Isaac Newton in 1687 and known as Newton's first law, Newton's second law, and Newton's third law.

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laws of motion Scientific  

/ lôz /

1. See Newton's laws of motion

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To join the known physics laws of thermodynamics, electromagnetism and Newton’s laws of motion and gravity, the nine scientists and philosophers behind the paper propose their “law of increasing functional information.”

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023

Unlike, say, Newton’s laws of motion, which precisely track objects’ trajectories, a wave function tracks only the probability that an electron, say, will behave in a certain way.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2022

Newton explained his optics findings in terms of a "corpuscular" view of light, in which light was composed of streams of extremely tiny particles travelling at high speeds according to Newton's laws of motion.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

In some ways, this chapter is a continuation of Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion as we study more applications of Newton's laws of motion.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Galileo’s measurements were used by Newton as the basis of his laws of motion.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking