Hey it's me again with yet another blog post on force. Today I am going to talk to you specifically on Newton's 1st law. This law states that an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside unbalanced force. This basically means that if an object is in motion, taking my picture of a cross country runner as an example, and say he is running at a constant velocity, the moment he crosses the finish line, he will be acted upon by an opposing force. Meaning he will stop. However, he is not only stopping, but he is decelerating or accelerating in the opposite direction. Because if he were to stop suddenly, he would most likely fall over or trip. I believe this is due to momentum or something (we didn't learn that yet). But anyways I believe that is what you need to know about Newton's 1st law. Next week I will be hopefully going over Newton's 2nd law.
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