Saturday, July 23, 2011

Newton's Second law

My seven year old son almost got the newton's second law without actually knowing about. Unusually quiet during his few hours in the car today while we ran some errands through Lahore, he by the evening had this to say. A truck on the road if it hit us will do a lot of more damage because its a lot heavier and if we were to cause the same damage to it we would have to come at a much higher speed. I brushed this aside initially but then realised that this was crudely what Newton's second law had to say. Remember F=ma from your school text books. Funny it took mankind thousands of years to actually formulate it. But perhaps formulation is the toughest part of any argument or theory.

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