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2 History

The Greeks, and Aristotle in particular, were the first to propose that there are abstract principles governing nature.

One of the first scientists who suggested abstract laws was Galileo Galilei who may have performed the famous experiment of dropping two cannon balls from the tower of Pisa. (The theory and the practice showed that they both hit the ground at the same time.) Though the reality of this experiment is disputed, he did carry out quantitative experiments by rolling balls on an inclined plane; his correct theory of accelerated motion was apparently derived from the results of the experiments.

Sir Isaac Newton was the first to propose the three laws of motion (the law of inertia, his second law mentioned above, and the law of action and reaction), and to prove that these laws govern both everyday objects and celestial objects.

Newton also developed the calculus which is necessary to perform the mathematical calculations involved in classical mechanics.

After Newton the field became more mathematical and more abstract.

3 See also

• Edmund Halley -- List of equations in classical mechanics
• important publications in classical mechanics

4 Further reading

• Feynman, Richard Phillips, Six Easy Pieces. BooksEnthsiast.com
• Feynman, Richard Phillips, and Roger Penrose, Six Not So Easy Pieces. March 1998. BooksEnthsiast.com
• Feynman, Richard Phillips, Lectures on Physics. BooksEnthsiast.com
• Kleppner, D. and Kolenkow, R. J., An Introduction to Mechanics, McGraw-Hill (1973). BooksEnthsiast.com

• Rosu, Haret C., "Classical Mechanics". Physics Education. 1999. [arxiv.org : physics/9909035]
• Horbatsch, Marko, "Classical Mechanics Course Notes".
• Sussman, Gerald Jay & Wisdom, Jack (2001). Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
• Hoiland, Paul (2004). Preferred Frames of Reference & Relativity

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