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    This document discusses how views of nature and science have changed over time between seeing the universe as strictly obeying fixed laws versus being in a constant state of flux and change. It describes how Newton's laws of motion helped transcend this dichotomy by showing that change obeys rules and that law and flux can coexist and influence one another. Specifically, Newton formulated his second law of motion that acceleration is proportional to force, and using calculus, this law and its mathematical formulations allowed patterns in nature to be better described and more physical laws to be discovered, shifting the view that nature can be described through mathematical processes and rates of change.

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    This document discusses how views of nature and science have changed over time between seeing the universe as strictly obeying fixed laws versus being in a constant state of flux and change. It describes how Newton's laws of motion helped transcend this dichotomy by showing that change obeys rules and that law and flux can coexist and influence one another. Specifically, Newton formulated his second law of motion that acceleration is proportional to force, and using calculus, this law and its mathematical formulations allowed patterns in nature to be better described and more physical laws to be discovered, shifting the view that nature can be described through mathematical processes and rates of change.

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    This document discusses how views of nature and science have changed over time between seeing the universe as strictly obeying fixed laws versus being in a constant state of flux and change. It describes how Newton's laws of motion helped transcend this dichotomy by showing that change obeys rules and that law and flux can coexist and influence one another. Specifically, Newton formulated his second law of motion that acceleration is proportional to force, and using calculus, this law and its mathematical formulations allowed patterns in nature to be better described and more physical laws to be discovered, shifting the view that nature can be described through mathematical processes and rates of change.

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    The Constant of Change

    GROUP FOUR
    Human thought about nature has swung between two
    opposing points of view.
    1. the universe obeys fixed, immutable laws and
    everything exist in a well defined objective reality.
    2. that all is flux, all is change.
    As Heraclitus says, "You can't step in the same river
    twice."
    Science has been largely governed by the first rule
    but ways of thinking as diverse as postmodernism,
    cyberpunk and chaos blur the objectiveness of
    reality.
    Newton's Mathematics find the first significant step
    toward a worldview that transcends and unites both
    rigid law and flexible flux. Kepler and Galileo also
    realized that change obey rules. Not only can law and
    flux coexist, but law generates flux; flux generates
    law.
    Prior to Newton Mathematics have offered
    an essentially static model of nature. But
    Newton change it all the way by stating his
    Law of Motion.
    𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 × 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒

    The simplest theory consistent with this measure of


    real experiments and thought experiments is that
    when a force acts on a body, the body experiences an
    acceleration that is proportional to that force. And the
    only missing piece is the assumption that it is always
    true.
    A historians urge when confronted by a historical theory was to solve
    it or know the facts behind it; hence a mathematicians urge when
    facing a problem was to solve it. But how? Solving acceleration which
    is a constant won’t give us a hint about the shape of trajectory. This is
    where calculus comes in.

    Calculus- an advance branch of mathematics that deals mostly with


    rates of change and with finding lengths, areas and volumes through
    the use of a technique called integration.
    Calculus provides a technique for finding rates called
    differentiation. Integration undoes the effect of
    differentiation ; and integrating twice undoes the
    effect of differentiating twice. This states that if you
    know the functions of a factor you can find the
    answer for the other because all of it was related.
    The laws that we observed and the law that produce it
    is creavesse, which the human mind can bridge only
    by mathematical calculations. As said by Paul Dirac,
    “God is a Mathematician.”. Maybe nature’s patterns
    and regularities have other origins; but at the very
    least, Mathematics is an extremely effective way for
    human beings to come to grips with those patterns.
    All the law of physics that were discovered by
    pursuing Isaac Newton’s basic insight- that
    change in nature can be describe by
    mathematical process, just as form in nature can
    be describe by mathematical things. All laws
    formulated after Isaac Newton’s Law was nit
    about physical quantities but various rates of
    changes.
    Isaac Newton solve Kepler’s discovery after
    discovering an important natural pattern, the
    law of gravitation. Hence, the inverse-square
    law was coined. However this law was only
    applicable to two moving bodies three body
    motion was yet to be discovered.
    Two body motion Three body motion
    Changes
    Over time the view about mathematics was change.
    The word solve was given different meanings. First
    the word means “find a formula”, then “find
    approximate problems” and lastly “tell me what it
    looks like.” but this change was not a retreat for what
    change of meaning has taught us is that for questions
    like the three body problem, no formulas can exist.
    We can prove that there are qualitative aspects to the
    solution that a formula cannot capture.
    Thank you for listening!!!

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