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10TH GRADE · DYNAMICS

Newton's laws

Relationship between forces and acceleration and interaction of bodies.

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Basic Concepts

2 concepts

Inertia

The property of a body to maintain a state of rest or uniform linear motion in the absence of a resultant force.

No force is needed to maintain uniform motion. A resultant force is needed to change the speed of a body.

Newton's laws

Basic laws of dynamics that connect the movement of a body with the forces acting on it.

In the problem, you need to select the body, show the acting forces and add them as vectors: it is the resultant that determines the acceleration.

Physical quantities

2 quantities

Force

A measure of the mechanical interaction of bodies.

Unit: newton ·

Resultant force

The vector sum of all forces acting on a body.

Unit: newton ·

Lesson formulas

4 formulas

Newton's second law

The resultant force is equal to the product of mass and acceleration.

Newton definition

One Newton gives a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one meter per second squared.

Second law for several forces

The vector sum of forces is equal to the product of mass and acceleration.

Newton's third law

The forces of interaction between two bodies are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

Related formulas

The same formulas in the reference, with symbols and units.

Tasks on the topic

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