Newton’s First Law of Motion

1. Newton’s First Law of Motion Forces & The Law of Inertia

2. To aid your understanding: • Aristotle's Ideas of Motion • Galileo's Concept of Inertia • Newton's First Law of Motion • Net Force and Vectors • The Equilibrium Rule • Support Force • Equilibrium of Moving Things • The Moving Earth

3. Aristotle's Ideas of Motion • Natural motion • Straight up or straight down for all things on Earth • Ex: Falling Leaves • Beyond Earth, motion is circular • Ex: The Sun and Moon continually circle Earth. • Violent motion • Produced by external pushes or pulls on objects • Ex: Wind imposes motion on ships.

4. Galileo's Concept of Inertia Galileo demolished Aristotle's assertions in the 1500s. Galileo's discovery: • Objects of different weight fall to the ground at the same time in the absence of air resistance. • A moving object needs no force to keep it moving in the absence of friction.

5. Galileo's Concept of Inertia Force • is a push or a pull. Inertia • is a property of matter to resist changes in motion. • depends on the amount of matter in an object (its mass).

6. Galileo's Concept of Inertia • Balls rolling on downward-sloping planes pick up speed. • Balls rolling on upward-sloping planes lose speed. • So a ball on a horizontal plane maintains its speed indefinitely. • If the ball comes to rest, it is not due to its "nature," but due to friction.

7. Galileo's Concept of InertiaCHECK YOUR NEIGHBOR The use of inclined planes for Galileo's experiments helped him to • eliminate the acceleration of free fall. • discover the concept of energy. • discover the property called inertia. • discover the concept of momentum

8. Galileo's Concept of InertiaCHECK YOUR ANSWER The use of inclined planes for Galileo's experiments helped him to • eliminate the acceleration of free fall. • discover the concept of energy. • discover the property called inertia. • discover the concept of momentum. Comment: Note that inertia is a property of matter, not a reason for the behavior of matter.

9. Newton's First Law of Motion • Isaac Newton was born soon after Galileo died. • In 1665, at the age of 23, Newton stated his 3 Laws of Motion which we still study today.

10. Newton's First Law of Motion • Every object continues in a state of rest or of uniform speed in a straight line unless acted on by a nonzero net force. • The LAW of INERTIA

11. Newton’s 1st Law – Law of Inertia

12. Inertia • INERTIA – a resistance to change in its state of motion • Inertia is a “property” of ALL matter----it is NOT a FORCE which acts on matter

13. Inertia • Think about what happens when you suddenly stop a car. • What does your body do?

14. Inertia

15. Inertia What would happen to a ladder placed on top of a truck if it suddenly came to a screeching halt?

17. Inertia • Your body continues to move in the same direction. • You are RESISTING change in your state of motion: INERTIA!

18. Mass – A measure of inertia • MASS – the amount of material present in an object • The amount of INERTIA an object has is dependent on its mass---1st Law of Motion • Greater mass; Greater the inertia

19. Newton’s 1st Law of motion is affected by 2 things: 1) Any type of force (net force, friction, weight, restoring force, etc.) 2) Inertia---which will keep the body doing what it was already doing—resistance to change

20. Net Force Vector quantity • a quantity whose description requires both magnitude (how much) and direction (which way) • can be represented by arrows drawn to scale, called vectors • length of arrow represents magnitude and arrowhead shows direction • Examples: force, velocity, acceleration

21. Net Force Definition: The combination of all the forces that act on an object is the NET FORCE—called the resultant force of vectors.

22. Net Force • Net force is the combination of all forces that act on an object. • Example: Two 5-N pulls in the same direction produce a 10-N pull (net force of 10 N). If the pair of 5-N pulls are in opposite directions, the net force is zero.

23. Net ForceCHECK YOUR NEIGHBOR A cart is pulled to the right with a force of 15 N while being pulled to the left with a force of 20 N. The net force on the cart is • 5 N to the left. • 5 N to the right. • 25 N to the left. • 25 N to the right.

24. Net ForceCHECK YOUR ANSWER A cart is pulled to the right with a force of 15 N while being pulled to the left with a force of 20 N. The net force on the cart is • 5 N to the left. • 5 N to the right. • 25 N to the left. • 25 N to the right. The two forces are in opposite directions, so they subtract. The direction is determined by the direction of the larger force.

25. Net ForceCHECK YOUR NEIGHBOR What is the net force acting on the box? • 15 N to the left • 15 N to the right • 5 N to the left • 5 N to the right ?

26. Net ForceCHECK YOUR ANSWER What is the net force acting on the box? • 15 N to the left • 15 N to the right • 5 N to the left • 5 N to the right

27. NET FORCES—TYPES OF: There are 3 types of “net forces”. 1) Force vectors moving in the same direction, the resultant is found by “adding” the force vectors. 2) Force vectors move in “opposite” direction, the resultant is found by “subtracting” the force vectors to find the resultant and the direction is the same as the larger of the 2 force vectors.

28. Equilibrium – When Net Force Equals Zero NET FORCES—TYPES OF: • When an object is at rest, with the net force on it being zero, we say it is in a state of EQUILIBRIUM.

29. RESULT OF NET FORCES

30. Vectors Vector quantity • has magnitude and direction. • is represented by an arrow. • Example: velocity, force, acceleration Scalar quantity • has magnitude ONLY. • Example: mass, volume, speed

31. Forces • Are vector quantities since they have both “direction” and “magnitude” • Any push or pull • 4 characteristics: • Net force (forces combining) • distance • found in pairs • work opposite to each other

32. Instrument and Units • The instrument used to measure force is called a spring scale. • Mass is measured with a triple beam balance &/or an electronic balance. • Volume is measured with a graduate cylinder • Time with a stop-watch

33. Force • Force is measured in SI units called NEWTONS 9.8 Newtons (N) of force = 1 kg of mass acted on by gravity so, 1 kg ⋅ gravity = 9.8 N One newton , 1N, is the force needed to accelerate one kilogram of mass at the rate of one meter per second squared in direction of the applied force so, 1 N = 1 kg⋅m/s2

34. Mass, Volume, and Weight • Volume is the measure of space an object takes up. • Weight is the measure of gravitational attraction an object has to Earth. • Mass is NOT the same as weight!!

35. Types of Forces • 8 different types of forces which can act on objects to produce motion

36. Types of forces • 8 different types of forces which can act on objects to produce motion 1. Air Resistance Force 2. Applied Force 3. Spring Force 4. Frictional Force 5. Gravitational Force 6. Electrical Force 7. Normal Force 8. Magnetic Force

37. Air resistance force What is air resistance? Basically, it is friction between an object and the air (gas), and also in fluids (liquids). Objects moving through air encounter forces and experience conditions similar to objects traveling through liquids. f What causes air resistance? All matter is made from atoms and/or molecules. The air is no exception. When something moves through the air, it bumps into the atoms and molecules. Pressure---is a force but, it is based on the amount of area in contact

38. Applied force What is applied? An applied force is a force that is applied to an object by a person or another object. If a person is pushing a desk across the room, then there is an applied force acting upon the object. The applied force is the force exerted on the desk by the person.

39. Spring force What is spring force? Is when an object is pushed together, then when pressures taken away it pops back to its normal self. • The restoring force which acts on any type of spring is also called the elastic force. • Direction is horizontal to “restore” the stretch of the spring • Hooke’s Law

40. Frictional force What is frictional force? Frictional force is present everywhere in our daily life. It is simply impossible to reduce it completely. Friction is an imposed force which will act “opposite” the motion of the object. Without friction, an object would continue moving forever on a level surface. What causes frictional force? The causes of the resistive force of friction are molecular adhesion, surface roughness, and the plowing effect. Adhesion is the molecular force resulting when two materials are brought into close contact with each other resulting in heat or deformation.

41. Gravitational force Newton’s fiery of gravitational forces : “Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.” • Objects rolling downhill tend to speed up (accelerate) • Objects rolling uphill tend to slow down (decelerate) • What about those on an even surface?

42. Gravity as a Force Causes Motion • Objects on a level surface do not have “horizontal” acceleration but may have “vertical” acceleration depending on whether dropped or acted upon by a force-which is “gravity” • Horizontal motion is considered to be “constant” when forces do not act on the object

43. Weight • Weight is the pull of gravity on an object • Direction is always “downward”---positive value • Attraction between 2 objects with earth as 1 of the objects.

44. Electrical force What is electrical force? The attractive or repulsive interaction between any two charged objects is an electric force. Like any force, its affect upon objects.

45. Normal force What is normal force? The normal force is the support force exerted upon an object that is in contact with another stable object. For example, if a book is resting upon a surface, then the surface is exerting an upward force upon the book in order to support the weight of the book. On occasions, a normal force is exerted horizontally between two objects that are in contact with each other. For instance, if a person leans against a wall, the wall pushes horizontally on the person.

46. Support Force • Support force (normal force) is an upward force on an object that is opposite to the force of gravity. • Example: A book on a table compresses atoms in the table, and the compressed atoms produce the support force.

47. Understanding Support Force • When you push down on a spring, the spring pushes back up on you. • Similarly, when a book pushes down on a table, the table pushes back up on the book.

48. Support ForceCHECK YOUR NEIGHBOR When you stand on two bathroom scales with one foot on each scale and with your weight evenly distributed, each scale will read • your weight. • half your weight. • zero. • more than your weight.

49. Support ForceCHECK YOUR ANSWER When you stand on two bathroom scales with one foot on each scale and with your weight evenly distributed, each scale will read • your weight. • half your weight. • zero. • more than your weight. Explanation: • You are at rest, so F = 0. • Forces from both scales add to cancel your weight. • Force from each scale is one-half your weight.

50. Magnetic force What is magnetic force? Magnetic force is the same as gravitational and electrical forces in that no one knows truly what it is. Magnetic force is different from gravitational and electrical forces in that its potential and momentic energy is at the expense of an electrical field in time.