Lecture 17: On the Shoulders of Giants: Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion
Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho, and Galileo together gave us a new way of\nlooking at the motions in the heavens, but they could not explain why\nthe planets move they way the do. It was to be the work of Isaac Newton\nwho was to sweep away the last vestiges of the Aristotelian view of the\nworld and replace it with with a new, vastly more powerful predictive\nsynthesis, in which all motions, in the heavens and on the Earth, obeyed\nthree simple, mathematical laws of motion. This lecture introduces\nNewton's Three Laws of Motion and their consequences. Recorded 2007 Oct\n12 in 1000 McPherson Lab on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State\nUniversity.