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What are Newton's threes laws?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"You mean Newton's law of motion? The first is the law of inertia. The second is the force placed upon an object is equal to the mass of that object times its acceleration, or F ma. And the third is the law of action and reaction."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
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Joseph Murphy is a NYS licensed Professional Engineer and 12 years of experience working on creating solutions in engineering and manufacturing environments
"Newtons laws of motion are:
1. An object in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force (the law of inertia).
2. The change of motion of an object is proportional to the force applied and is made in the direction of the straight line in which the force is applied.
3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Control Systems Engineer @ Ram Aviation, Space, and Defense
"Newton's first law is inertia (if an object is moving, it will continue like that unless another force acts on it). His second law is that the amount of force applied to the object determines the acceleration of the object in accordance with its mass. His third law is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
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