... Newton upset. Descartes posed two problems, the mechanics of impact and of circular motion. Both of these proposed a problem because Descartes analyzed impact in terms of the force internal to a moving body. Newton anticipated that a body will continue in its state unless an external force is acted upon it. This conclusion is still known today as the Conservation of Momentum. Newton did agree that a body in circular ... motion wants to withdraw from the center. By doing a few experiments he constructed a formula; f=m2v/r, that we still use today in mechanics of circular motion. Newton wa...

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