Abstract
It is worth re-emphasizing the fact that Newton’s second law may be used in two primary ways:
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Given a knowledge of all the forces acting on a body, we can calculate its motion.
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Given a knowledge of the motion, we can infer what force or forces must be acting.
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© 1986 A.P.French and M.G.Ebison
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French, A.P., Ebison, M.G. (1986). Using Newton’s laws. In: Introduction to CLASSICAL MECHANICS. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4119-9_3
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