Newton’s Laws of Motion

• The fundamental laws of mechanical motion were first formulated by Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), and were published in his Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

• Calculus, invented independently by Newton and Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), plus Newton's laws of motion are the mathematical tools needed to understand rocket motion.

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