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CHAPTER
4 Newton’s Three Laws
Chapter Outline
4.1 Newton’s First Law
4.2 NEWTON’SSECONDLAW
4.3 NEWTON’STHIRDLAW
4.4 REFERENCES
Newton’s three Laws of Motion are the core of our understanding offorce, which is how objects affect each others
motion. In this chapter, we will cover the definition of force, an object’s innate resistance to being moved by force
–calledinertia–and how forces interact with each other.