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The "other mathematician" was Leibniz
This law shows how the force between any two objects (you and your laptop for instance) varies with the distance squared between the two objects.
This law shows how the force between any two objects (you and your laptop for instance) varies with the distance squared between the two objects.
Newton also developed the mathematical domain of Calculus: the study of rates of change. Calculus is essential to our understanding of technology around us from how electricity works to how your cell phone communicates and to the dynamics of speeding bullets and cars. Newton took around 33 years to publish this after developing it which caused a bitter feud with another mathematician of the time who also had claimed to develop it.
Newton also developed the mathematical domain of Calculus: the study of rates of change. Calculus is essential to our understanding of technology around us from how electricity works to how your cell phone communicates and to the dynamics of speeding bullets and cars. Newton took around 33 years to publish this after developing it which caused a bitter feud with [[Gottfried Leibniz]], another mathematician of the time who developed it independently.
Another famous physicist was [[Ernest Rutherford]] who kicked off the idea of our current model of the atom. The current model, advanced by Bohr and then polished by Schrödinger dictates that all positive charge in an [[atom]] is in its nucleus (along with neutrons) and orbited by negative charge (electrons) in much the same way as planets orbit a star. In fact, to a certain extent, Newtonian dynamics can be used to describe the motion of the electron on its path around the nucleus.
Another famous physicist was [[Ernest Rutherford]] who kicked off the idea of our current model of the atom. The current model, advanced by Bohr and then polished by Schrödinger dictates that all positive charge in an [[atom]] is in its nucleus (along with neutrons) and orbited by negative charge (electrons) in much the same way as planets orbit a star. In fact, to a certain extent, Newtonian dynamics can be used to describe the motion of the electron on its path around the nucleus.