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Definition of First law of motion

1. Noun. A body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force.

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Literary usage of First law of motion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"A good example of Law in this sense is to be found in the law which, in the Science of Mechanics, is called the First Law of Motion. ..."

2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1858)
"Establishment of the First Law of Motion. AFTER mathematicians had begun to doubt or reject the authority of Aristotle, they were still some time in coming ..."

3. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"Establishment of the First Law of Motion. A FT EH mathematicians had begun to doubt or J\. reject the authority of Aristotle, they were still some time in ..."

4. An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics by Forest Ray Moulton (1914)
"Remarks on the First Law of Motion. In the first law the statement that a body subject to no forces moves with uniform motion, may be regarded as a ..."

5. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1898)
"Therefore the complete and explicit statement of the first law of motion is as follows ... The first law of motion may be regarded as a consequence of the ..."

6. Matter and Motion by James Clerk Maxwell (1878)
"The third compares the two aspects of the action between two bodies, as it affects the one body or the other. THE first law of motion. ..."

7. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"Most modern writers on mechanics have embraced the opposite opinion, and have ascribed our knowledge of this first law of motion to experience. ..."

8. History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the by William Whewell (1858)
"... motion was in its own nature not liable to any change or diminution", as we learn from the First Law of Motion. Nor was the subject lightly dismissed. ..."

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