Includes bibliographic references (p. 38) and index.
Contents:
Young Isaac -- Newton's ideas -- Newton's Laws of Motion -- Understanding natural forces -- White light -- Newton the inventor -- Master problem solver -- Civil engineer: Oksana Wall -- Life and work at a glance -- The work of Isaac Newton -- Important people in physics.
Summary:
One of the greatest thinkers of all time, Isaac Newton gave the world an accurate understanding of forces and motion throughout the universe. He went to college but learned much about science on his own, by observing, experimenting, and thinking carefully. Newton's laws of motion explain, in a few sentences, how and why things move, or don't move, when forces act on them. He also studied and described gravity and the makeup of light, and he created a kind of math known today as calculus.
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