Newton's Laws of Motion: Force and Inertia

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written by David Stern

This series of web pages, part of "From Stargazers to Starships," describes Newton's three laws of motion and the two concepts on which they are based, force and inertia. A lesson plan for instructors is also provided.

http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Snewton.htm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Applications of Newton's Laws - Newton's First Law - Newton's Second Law - Newton's Third Law General Physics - General	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Lesson/Lesson Plan = Unit of Instruction

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2005 David Stern
Keywords:: Application of Newton's Laws, Newton's Laws, force, force and motion, inertia, intertia, lesson plan, motion
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created September 26, 2005 by Henry Bradsher
Record Updated:: March 6, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: October 9, 2004
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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