[PHY 2020] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (27 pages long)
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Or it could be circular, as in the case of celestial objects. Two main classes of motion: natural motion and violent motion combination of the four elements (earth, water, air, and fire) the object contains. Violent motion: the result of pulling or pushing forces. Chapter (cid:884): newton"s first law of motion- inertia. Natural motion: proceeds from the (cid:498)nature(cid:499) of an object, dependent on the. Any objects not in its proper place will (cid:498)strive(cid:499) to get there themselves, not by their (cid:498)nature(cid:499) but because of pushes or pulls. (cid:884). (cid:884) galileo"s experiments leaning tower. It is externally caused and was imparted to objects; they move not of: reasoned that the only way for the observed motions of the sun, Nicolaus copernicus formulated his theory of the moving earth. He found that a stone twice as another did not fall twice as fast. Moon, and planets was to assume that earth circles the sun.