For starters, Isaac Newton’s theory of “fluxions” or calculus, was a giant contribution to the mathematical world! Fluxional calculus is a method for treating changing or flowing quantities. This theory revolutionized the math world in ways people couldn’t imagine. While Newton is technically …show more content…
After an extraordinary series of experiments, Newton showed that prisms separate white light of modifying it. On the contrary to the theories of Aristotle and others, Newton proved that white light is secondary and heterogeneous, while the other colors are primary and homogeneous. Newton also demonstrated that the colors of the spectrum, once thought to be qualities, correspond to an observed and quantifiable “degree of refrangibility.” Newton's most famous experiment, the “experimentum crucis”, demonstrated his theory of the composition of light. Briefly, in a dark room Newton let a thin beam of sunlight to pass through a small hole in a window’s shutter. From there it went through a prism, that breaking the white light into an oval spectrum on a board. Then, through another small hole in the board, Newton selected any given color to pass through yet another hole to a second prism, through which it was refracted onto a second board. What started as ordinary white light was then dispersed through two prisms. Newton's “crucial experiment” demonstrated that a selected color leaving the first prism could not be separated again by the second prism. The chosen beam remained the same color and its angle of refraction was constant throughout the experiment. Newton then concluded that white light is a “Heterogeneous …show more content…
“(1) Every body continues in its state of rest, or uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it (The property of “Inertia”). (2) The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed and is made in the direction of the straight line in which that force is impressed (F = ma). (3) To every action there is always an opposite and equal reaction.” Newton had finally put down a basis that all scientists could understand and use to benefit in their them in their scientific studies. Along with that newton also kept researching the subject and extended his three laws of motion that already framed of the world. He finally demonstrated “that there is a power of gravity tending to all bodies, proportional to the several quantities of matter which they contain.” Newton's law of universal gravitation states that “F = G Mm/R2”, meaning that all matter is mutually attracted with a force (F), proportional to the product of their masses (Mm), and inversely proportional to the square of distance (R2) between them. While G is a constant whose value depends on the units used for mass and