Newton Physics Emerges

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  • Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, the same year Galileo died. He did much of his greatest work during a two year period from 1665 to 1667 when he was at the village of Woolsworth to escape the Great Plague which was ravishing London.

  • He died in 1727, at the age of 85. Years later it was discovered that much of his erratic behavior may have been caused by mercury poisoning. Recent samples of his hair showed he had forty times the level of mercury considered normal.

  • Newton discovered the origin of color.

  • He discovered the nature of gravity as an attractive force.

  • He invented calculus as the language necessary to understand how gravity works

  • He used his knowledge or optics to invent the first reflecting telescope - a major breakthru because this will eventually allow larger, more sensitive telescopes to be built.




  • The genius of Newton was his ability to use calculus and coordinate transformations to reveal and explain the underlying physics.

    Calculus as a Language

    For example, how do I compute the area of a circle.

    A circle is enclosed by a surface when a line of radius r that has been rotated through 360 (2π) degrees.

    From the language of Calculus this means the following:

    Language should evolve so that communication becomes more efficient; i.e. the above graphic shows how to derive the area of a circle in using the least amount of characters and symbols. It is only meaningful if you understand the language


    Newtonian Physics: