Scientists Flashcards
Suggests that a force is necessary to produce motion. If there is no force, there is no motion.
Aristotle
For Aristotle, what is motion?
Actuality of potentiality
What are the two types of motion according to Aristotle?
Natural and violent motion
Natural tendency of an object to go to its natural place
Natural motion
Removing an object from its natural place by pulling, pushing, or lifting
Violent motion
He showed that an object moving along a frictionless horizontal surface does not need a force to maintain its speed
Galileo Galilei
Who said that inertia is the natural tendency of a body to remain at rest?
Galileo Galilei
What are the four natural places?
Fire, water, air, and earth
Inertia is proportional to?
Mass
He developed the ideas of Galileo
Isaac Newton
What is the book of Isaac Newton?
Principia Mathematica
What did Isaac Newton developed?
The three laws of motion; The fundamental laws of physics
