2. By Zach Short http://www.gap-system.org/~history/PictDisplay/Newton.html

3.  Isaac was born on Christmas day in 1642  Newton started out his childhood as a farmer, an occupation that he did not enjoy  Newton then went on to attend Trinity College where he was a poor student  Then event that turned things around for him was when he left for Cambridge University  After struggling through school he succeeded Isaac Barrow as Cambridge’s professor of Mathematics

4.  After he was elected into the Royal Society he released a controversial paper on the nature of color  A few disputes passed and then Newton withdrew himself from the argument  Then he came out with another paper which had supposedly plagiarized Hooke, Newton again withdrew from the argument

5.  This conflict started when Leibniz began publishing papers about Calculus almost 20 years after Newton  Leibniz was accused of borrowing some of Newton’s ideas and the charges escalated to plagiarism  It is now generally accepted that they are co- founders of Calculus

6.  Newton’s most popular idea was to think of a curve as the motion of a particle so that the second and third derivates were always velocity and acceleration  Newton also developed the little o notation where o is an infinitely small number  The last method was the “method of first and last ratios” which is similar to limits

8. Newton’s First Law of Motion Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. From http://science.howstuffworks.com/newton-law- of-motion1.htm

9.  Force equals mass times acceleration ( F = m a )": the net force on an object is equal to the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration From http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NewtonsSecondLaw/HTMLI mages/index.en/popup_1.jpg

10.  To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction From http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/balloon/images/newton.gif

11.  Hatch, Dr. Robert A.. “Sir Isaac Newton." Jan 2002 Web.19 May 2009..  Schultz, Phill. "Lecture 20 Newton's Invention of calculus.." Web.19 May 2009..