Newtonʻs First Law

This week in class we discussed and learned about Newtonʻs Laws of Motion. There are three laws:

1. Law of Inertia: objects in motion (rest) tend to stay in motion (rest) unless acted upon by outside unbalanced force.

2. Law of Acceleration: Acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force on the object.

3. Action Reaction Law: For every action, there is an equal or opposite action. For every force, there is an equal or opposite force. Equal in magnitude, opposite in direction.

In class the one we focused on the most was the first law. The law of inertia. We did an experiment analyzing inertia using a frictionless disk. We pushed it across the floor to analyze how it will forever continue to stay in motion until something affects it. One example that Mr. Blake discussed that was actually very funny was in relation to us teenagers. He said an excuse to not do anything was to tell your parents about the first law of inertia. How an object at rest stays at rest. Therefore since I am an object at rest I will tend to stay at rest. I honestly thought that, that was a very funny example of physics in everyday life. Everyday I learn that there is physics more and more in everyday life.