Forces

Resources

free body diagrams
- Free-body diagrams revisited — I. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 1999): 427-433.
- Exercises in drawing and utilizing free-body diagrams. Kurt Fisher. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 1999): 434-435.
- Free-body diagrams. James E. Court. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1993): 104-108.
humor
- Physics Teacher's Car Accident Would've Made Perfect Example for Class, The Onion, 1 December 2009, Issue 45·49
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principals of Natural Phiolosopy), Isaac Newton, 5 July 1687
- Google Books, Latin First Edition, 1687
- Google Books, Latin Third Edition, 1833
- Carnegie Mellon University, First American Edition, Translated by Andrew Motte, 1729
- The Internet Archive, First American Edition, Translated by Andrew Motte, 1729
- Московский Центр Непрерывного Математического Образования, Перевод Алексея Николаевича Крылова, 1936
simulations
- Vector Jockey, A very simple Windows application that illustrates Newton's laws in two dimensions quite well.
video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
  - Inertia, Galileo risks his favored status to answer the questions of the universe with his law of inertia.
  - Newton's Laws, Newton lays down the laws of force, mass, and acceleration.

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