What Is Newton's Law of Inertia About? Philosophical Reasoning and Explanation in Newton's Principia

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Classical Mechanics ◽  
Know How ◽  
Technical Practice ◽  
Newton's Law ◽  
Newton’S Law

The ArgumentIn this paper it will be shown that Newton's Principia gives an explication of and an argument for the first Law of Motion, that seems to be outside the scope of today's philosophy of science but was familiar to seventeenth-century commentators: The foundation of classical mechanics is possible only by recurrence to results of a successful technical practice. Laws of classical mechanics gain their meaning as well as their claims to validity only when considered as statements about artifacts whose production belongs to the shared know-how of a scientific community.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue “Relativistic Astrophysics”

Universe ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Francesco De Paolis ◽  
Achille A. Nucita ◽  
Alexander F. Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Classical Mechanics ◽  
Relativistic Astrophysics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Newton's Law ◽  
Newton’S Law ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
General Relativistic

Relativistic Astrophysics is the branch of astrophysics that studies astronomical phenomena and celestial bodies, for which classical mechanics and Newton’s law of gravitation are inapplicable to creation of suitable models and we have to generalize these approaches following general relativistic prescriptions [...]

Study of Kynematics and Dynamics in the Traffic of Rembangan Tourism in the Jember Regency as Learning Resources for Physics Learning in the Senior High School

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfido Fauzy Zakaria ◽  
Bambang Supriadi ◽  
Trapsilo Prihandono
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Circular Motion ◽  
Rectilinear Motion ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Physics Learning ◽  
Newton's Law ◽  
Newton’S Law

One branch of physics is mechanics. Based on interviews to Senior High School teacher in Jember, mechanics is difficult to learn. The eksternals factor this chapter is dificult to learn is learning Resources. The learning Resources are often less contextuall with around the phenomenon of students. The contextuall learning Resources in the Jember Regency is study of kynematics and dynamics in the traffic of Rembangan Tourism. From this experiment, we get data can be used as a learning resources chapter uniform rectilinear motion, decelerated uniform rectilinear motion, accelerated uniform rectilinear motion, Newton’s Law, and circular motion.

Characteristics of Scientific Inquiry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Miksza ◽  
Kenneth Elpus
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Historical Developments

This chapter introduces the reader to basic characteristics of science and situates the design and analysis considerations presented throughout the book within the context of scientific inquiry. A brief description of key historical developments regarding the philosophy of science is provided. An overview of the fundamental aspects of inductive and deductive scientific reasoning and the importance of falsification to scientific progress is presented. In addition, the values of objectivity and transparency as well as the importance of scientific community are stressed. The usefulness of statistical tools for helping researchers clarify their questions, establish criteria for their judgments, and communicate evidence for their claims is also discussed.

The Caroline Church Heroic: The Reconstruction of Epic Religion in Three Seventeenth-Century Communities

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-818
Author(s):  
Reid Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Know How ◽  
Acts And Monuments

In his biography of Nicholas Ferrar, A.L. Maycock speaks volumes in describing the Ferrar family's transition in 1625 as a movement from one venture (the Virginia Company) to another, the “great adventure” of Little Gidding. In this one phrase Maycock comprehends the view of its founders that no less than the Virginia Company's epic plantation of true religion among the Indians, the community at Little Gidding ranks as a heroic enterprise, the discursive preoccupation of which proves to be the very nature of Christian heroism itself. Even if readers of the Ferrar papers do not know how highly Nicholas Ferrar prized the Acts and Monuments, it is impossible for them to miss the Foxeian narratives of “heroic suffering” so pervasive in the “story books” left as folio records of the dialogues performed by the so-called Little Academy.

scholarly journals Non-standard compactifications with mass gaps and Newton's law

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 (10) ◽  
pp. 013-013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Brandhuber ◽  
Konstadinos Sfetsos
Keyword(s):  
Newton's Law ◽  
Newton’S Law

A Transient Formulation of Newton's Cooling Law for Spherical Bodies

2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Sazhin ◽  
V. A. Gol'dshtein ◽  
M. R. Heikal
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Diesel Engine ◽  
Effective Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Spherical Body ◽  
Fuel Droplet ◽  
Transient Effects ◽  
Newton's Law ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Newton’S Law

Newton's law of cooling is shown to underestimate the heat flux between a spherical body (droplet) and a homogeneous gas after this body is suddenly immersed into the gas. This problem is rectified by replacing the gas thermal conductivity by the effective thermal conductivity. The latter reduces to the gas thermal conductivity in the limit of t→∞, but can be substantially higher in the limit of t→0. In the case of fuel droplet heating in a medium duty truck Diesel engine the gas thermal conductivity may need to be increased by more than 100 percent at the initial stage of calculations to account for transient effects during the process of droplet heating.

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