Sir Isaac newton
Early yearsIsaac Newton born on the 25th of December, 1642, in Woolsthorpe - march 20th, 1727. He was a young boy with bright ambitions. He began schooling in Kings School, Grantham, he was a lack lusting student. Kings School eventually helped Newton for entrance to Trinity College. A turning point eventually came about in Newton life in June 1661, causing him to leave Woolsthorpe for Cambridge university.
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In his years at Cambridge, he developed an interest in physics, mathematics, optics and astronomy. In 1665 an epidemic plague caused Cambridge to shut down for two years. Newton moved back to Woolsthorpe and continued his studies privately.
Newton believed was a devout Christian man who, surprisingly, wrote more about religious beliefs than his scientific theories. |
AWARDS and contributions
During Newton 's time in Cambridge university he mastered an arts degree and four years late he succeeded as Lucausian professor of mathematics. Newton was awarded in 1668 for developing the fist functional reflecting telescope. This particular telescopes is quite popular and used by amateur astronomers. In school Newton was President of the Royal Society but his fellow royal society peers did not always agree with his decisions and discoveries. Newton was very interested with mathematics which shows through his major contributions to mathematics. In 1666, his work on flexion or calculus was featured in a manuscript, this was later published with his mathematical theories. Eventually Newton became a professor of maths in 1669.
Newton's contribution to all mathematics he studied throughout his schooling, however his major contribution links to his famous for his solutions to problems in analytical geometry of drawing tangents to curves (differentiation) and defining areas bounded by curves (integration). He also discovered that these problems were inverse to each other.
Newton also contributed into the scientific area of optics. He discovered measurable, mathematical patterns in phenomenon of colour. He also investigated the refraction of light. As a result of his experimentation he found that white light is a mixture of infinitely variable coloured rays. Each ray has a different tone definable by the angle direction in which the ray reflects on.
One afternoon Newton was sitting under a tree when suddenly an apple fell on his head. Newton became curious to how this was possible since the apple was stationary but then rapidly accelerated to drop to the ground. He figured that something must be pushing or forcing the apple down. In Newtons second law of motion states that the acceleration of an object is dependant upon its net force and acceleration of an object depends directly upon the net force acting upon the object, this then led to Newton calling this force which was pushing he apple to the ground "gravity". Newton's discovered 3 laws of motion. The first law refers to inertia and objects will remain at rest, unless there is some sort of force being acted upon by any external force, however if an object is moving the velocity will be constant unless an external force acts upon the object. His second law is the law of force. The formula F=m x a is the equation of forces equals mass times acceleration. He discovered this as your body mass times the gravity of earth is equally to your weight. The third and final law of motion Newton discovered the force of one body will equal the force in magnitude.
Newton's contribution to all mathematics he studied throughout his schooling, however his major contribution links to his famous for his solutions to problems in analytical geometry of drawing tangents to curves (differentiation) and defining areas bounded by curves (integration). He also discovered that these problems were inverse to each other.
Newton also contributed into the scientific area of optics. He discovered measurable, mathematical patterns in phenomenon of colour. He also investigated the refraction of light. As a result of his experimentation he found that white light is a mixture of infinitely variable coloured rays. Each ray has a different tone definable by the angle direction in which the ray reflects on.
One afternoon Newton was sitting under a tree when suddenly an apple fell on his head. Newton became curious to how this was possible since the apple was stationary but then rapidly accelerated to drop to the ground. He figured that something must be pushing or forcing the apple down. In Newtons second law of motion states that the acceleration of an object is dependant upon its net force and acceleration of an object depends directly upon the net force acting upon the object, this then led to Newton calling this force which was pushing he apple to the ground "gravity". Newton's discovered 3 laws of motion. The first law refers to inertia and objects will remain at rest, unless there is some sort of force being acted upon by any external force, however if an object is moving the velocity will be constant unless an external force acts upon the object. His second law is the law of force. The formula F=m x a is the equation of forces equals mass times acceleration. He discovered this as your body mass times the gravity of earth is equally to your weight. The third and final law of motion Newton discovered the force of one body will equal the force in magnitude.
Newton discovered universal gravity. Newton was studying over the earth and the moon when he came to his conclusion of gravity. He wondered what it was that allowed the moon to orbit around the earth. He noticed that the orbit of the moon stayed at a constant distance and moved in almost a full circle he figured that something from earth was holding or pulling the moon to stay in that particular position, this pull or exert .
Isaac Newton's discoveries make a huge impact on today's society. His discoveries of mathematics led to the formation of modern day calculus and through his formulas, we have learned how to calculate and solve area space accompanied on any curved surface. His discoveries and hard studies of motion and gravity have led to today's modern learning of physics.
Isaac Newton's discoveries make a huge impact on today's society. His discoveries of mathematics led to the formation of modern day calculus and through his formulas, we have learned how to calculate and solve area space accompanied on any curved surface. His discoveries and hard studies of motion and gravity have led to today's modern learning of physics.
