Sir Isaac Newton was born Christmas day in 1642. He was born to Hanna and Isaac Newton. His father died three months before Newton was born leaving him fatherless. Then at three, his mother placed him to live with his grandmother so that she could go and remarry and start a new life with a wealthy rector. After her second husband died, Newton was taken out of school and made into a farmer, which is not something he was very good at. He failed at this and the went back to school and prepared to go to Trinity college, Cambridge. It is here where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1665. on July 7,1668, Newton is granted his Master's degree at Cambridge. Newton had many accomplishments throughout his life and eventually dies on March 20,1727.
On of Newton's most famous accomplishments were his laws of motion. Newton's first law of motion simply states that, "An object in motion will stay in motion in a straight line, and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." We feel Newton's first law every day, but we do not feel them because of the other forces on Earth that interfere. Gravity is the most common force that affects the laws. In space, because there is no gravity, the first law is more obvious. If you throw a ball up in the air on Earth, the gravity will weigh the ball down and it will only get so high before it falls to the ground. In space, the ball will keep going and going until something gets in its path, the unbalanced force, and stops the ball. .
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The most common place that people on Earth feel Newton's first law is in a fast moving vehicle, like a car, that comes to a sudden stop. In a wreck, an unbalanced force will stop the car but the people inside keep moving until they reach an unbalanced force also. That is why we are supposed to wear seatbelts while we are riding in a car. Say a car was going 60 miles per hour on a straightaway and the person inside the car is not wearing a seatbelt.
