# Newton's laws of motion
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> Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws, which provide the basis for Newtonian mechanics, can be paraphrased as follows: ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_Laws_of_Motion))
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## Overview
Newton's laws of motion are the three foundational propositions that govern the dynamics of classical bodies under forces. Stated by [[Isaac_Newton|Isaac Newton]] in his 1687 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, they remain the conceptual backbone of mechanics for any [[System|system]] whose speeds are small compared with light and whose action is large compared with Planck's constant. The First Law (inertia) asserts that a body persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change by a net external [[Force|force]]; the law makes inertial frames the privileged setting for the other two and pins down what "force" must mean. The Second Law packages the relationship between force and motion: the time rate of change of momentum equals the applied force, F = dp/dt, which for constant mass collapses to the celebrated F = m*a. The Third Law states that whenever one body exerts a force on a second, the second exerts an equal and opposite force on the first; pairwise this guarantees conservation of total linear momentum for any [[Isolated_system|isolated system]]. Together the three laws are equivalent to a complete prescription for the trajectories of point particles and, by integration over rigid distributions, of extended bodies.
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## Wikipedia : Wikitube
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