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MIT 8.01 Physics I Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999 15 Online
OpenStudy (anonymous):

newton's laws are proven or not?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Yes. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sjblatt/science/physics/newtonslaws.html You can prove them pretty easily. P.S. Something so commonly used obviously will have a logical proof behind it. You can also view a deductive proof http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cutting/3rdlaw.htm

OpenStudy (anonymous):

No. They are interdependent and logically consistent and agree with experience almost exactly. However, we can't prove that F=ma. We *define* the cause of all accelerations to be a force. No acceleration=no force, by definition. This is an axiom, and cannot be "proven".

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