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by Isaac Newton Icon
1 minutes  • 149 words

Galileo discovered Law 1, 2, and Corollaries 1, 2 as bodies:

  • falling in the duplicate ratio of the time [as seconds squared]
  • moving in a parabola as projectiles

The uniform gravity of a body acts equally in equal particles of time on that body to create equal velocities. In the whole time, gravity impresses a whole force and generates a velocity proportional to that time.

The space traveled per time are proportional to the velocity and time together in a duplicate ratio of the times*.

*Superphysics note: This leads to a unity as meters-per-second-squared

When a body is thrown upwards, its uniform gravity impresses forces and removes its upward velocities proportional to the times. At the time at the highest point, all the upward velocities [in unity] are removed.

If a body is projected in any direction, the resulting motion is compounded with the motion arising from its gravity.

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