Isaac Newton made statements in his Laws of Motion about the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces. Newton's First Law is concerned with balanced forces. It states that if a body is at rest and ...

But according to a philosopher of language and mathematics, we might have been interpreting Newton's precise wording of his first law of motion slightly wrong all along. Virginia Tech philosopher ...

So, what are forces? Well forces cause things to change, and a beautiful example of that is Newton's first law of motion. It says that things stay still or carry on moving at a constant speed in a ...