Sir Isaac Newton appears relatively old despite his wig.(Source)We remember the guy in the fancy wig3, Sir Isaac Newton. He defined time, velocity, and acceleration as part of his three laws of mot...

Einstein's special... relativity.(Source)Einstein is one of the most famous, most intelligent, most splendiferous people to ever grace Earth, but he did poorly at the Polytechnic Institute in Zuric...

Since all of Newtonian physics relies on time and distance, we correctly anticipate that concepts dependent on time and distance change too. How do energy, work, force, and momentum change in speci...

Newtonian PhysicsAs long as we keep track of which direction the object is moving, just x if it's as we've learned here, we should be in good shape.It's oh-so-easy to confuse quantities which belon...

Newtonian Physics1. Carbon-14 decays to nitrogen-14 with a half-life of τ= 5730 years9. If we used a carbon atom to measure our 1-mile run, how long would our 10-minute run last?2. How long does o...