Question

Abby is writing a biography of Isaac Newton. He was a brilliant English scientist who developed the law of universal gravitation in the 1600s. Newton also developed laws of motion and ideas about inertia. His laws and ideas were used in many subjects such as physics, astronomy, and mathematics. Explain inertia using Newton's first law of motion. Give an example of inertia.

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Over several years, Newton worked until he had developed the law of universal gravitation, which debuted in his book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1869). This idea stood until the concepts of quantum theory and relativity were posed in the mid 19th century.