Question

Construct a scale of 1:14 to read feet and inches and long enough
to measure 7 feet. Show a distance of 5 feet 10 inches on it.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

This showed that the real effect of a force is

always to change the speed of a body, rather than just to set it moving,

as was previously thought. It also meant that whenever a body is not

acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the

same speed. This idea was first stated explicitly in Newton’s Principia

Mathematica, published in 1687, and is known as Newton’s first law.

What happens to a body when a force does act on it is given by Newton’s

second law