A Student's Guide to Newton's Laws of Motion

Sanjoy Mahajan is Research Affiliate in the Mathematics Department and J-WEL Affiliate at the Jameel World Education Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After having studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and physics at the California Institute of Technology, he has taught physics, mathematics, and engineering around the world, including at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering (2014) and Street-Fighting Mathematics (2010).

• Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Newton's third law: forces belong to interactions; 2. Freebody diagrams: representing forces; 3. Newton's first law: permission to use Newton's second law; 4. Introducing Newton's second law; 5. Newton's second law with zero acceleration; 6. Describing changing motion: acceleration; 7. Newton's second law with changing motion; 8. What comes next; References; Index.