Newton's Laws of Motion

Newton's Laws represent an effort to explain the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces that act upon it.  The set of Video Tutorials below explain how forces can affect the motion of objects.

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What is a Force?

Force Diagrams

What do Forces Do?

Newton's First Law

Force-Motion Misconceptions

Inertia and Mass

​Recognizing Force Types

Drawing Free-Body Diagrams

Mass vs. Weight

Friction

Newton's Second Law of Motion

Thinking Proportionally About Newton's Second Law

Determining Acceleration from Force Information

Determining an Individual Force Value

Free Fall and Newton's Second Law

Air Resistance, Terminal Velocity, and Skydiving

Double Trouble with Two-Body Problems

Atwood Machines

Newton's Third Law

Interaction Force Pairs