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Law of motion

noun

One of three basic laws of classical mechanics. Synonyms: Newton's law, Newton's law of motion.

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"Law of motion" Quotes from Famous Books

... expresses nothing else than the law of motion of the point with reference to the system K (of the man with reference to the embankment). We denote this velocity by the symbol W, and we then obtain, as ...

— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein

... balls stand still, except the last one, and that flies off. The shock, like the earthquake shock, has run through them all; but only the end one, which had nothing beyond it but soft air, has been moved; and when you grow old, and learn mathematics, you will know the law of motion according to which that happens, and learn to apply what the billiard-balls have taught you, to explain the wonders of an earthquake. For in this case, as in so many more, you must watch Madam How at work on little and common things, to ...

— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley

Words linked to "Law of motion" : law of action and reaction, Newton's third law, Newton's first law, law, Newton's second law, law of nature