Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Was Newton Correct with his 3rd Law ??

Newtons 3rd Law " Every Action has equal and opposite Reaction."

Hello reader,
Am sure that you must have definitely read it in your lower classes that Newton "The Great Scientist" gave 3 Laws. Usually these law are applied to Motion, but they completely fail as they are not in terms of Energy Transfers.

Believe me if you combine it with the Law of Conservation "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, can be only transformed from one form to another." , then it becomes applicable to almost Everything.

The point to write this article is to simply say that Newton was really wrong to write the statement for 3rd Law. I know i don't stand anywhere against such a great Thinker and Philosopher, but do consider my Theory and post Comments.

According to me, it should have been "Every positive energy has a negative energy equivalent which is of the same magnitude as of the former, where the positive and negative convention is based on frame of reference"...

What ?? You can't see any difference between two ??

Okay... Lets take an example, suppose, You are waving your hand,
Action here is -- air is displaced with the force exerted while you move your hand across the stable air.
And according to Newton's Statement, Reaction should be -- your hand should get displaced due to force exerted by air on your hand.

so ?? Do you really find any equivalence in action and reaction ??...Answer is definitely "NO".

But if you consider my statement, according to it,
Positive Energy would be -- the Biological-Energy (energy used in Muscles can't be expressed in Joules, one of my believes) consumed to move the hand is the total energy used for the action.
And, the Negative Energy would be --
  1. The energy dissipated in Lactic Acid production, also called Tiring Effect, it is responsible for making your brain feel tired so as to activate the muscle cell regeneration.
  2. The heat energy generated due to collision of your skin with the stationery particles of air.
  3. The momentum generated in the air particles which were earlier in rest state but now in random motion state.
New statement satisfies the problem even if we reverse the condition, the only change in equations would be there convention which is completely based on frame of reference.

This New Statement is very much applicable to every situation. Do let me know your views.
I would soon upload my experiences on
, Black Magic and Transforming States of Matter.

Thanks

5 comments:

Sach1 said...

ahaan! ad sense n all..inne saare widgets..gud goin'!
ab do 1 thing..reply 2 d comments on ur blog only..inc in traffic u c! :)

M.S. said...

a really impressive explaination of the third law..i must say tht evening table talk was worth..the forces tht u considered were undoubtedly very correct..bt theres still one point..energy cnt be scaled..id suggest rather making energy positive n negative mark it as flow..high to low n vice versa..looking fwd to ur blog on tht steel transformation..
mast!!:)

Unknown said...

In reply to Mansi,
if your relating +ve n -ve as scaling then am sorry for misinterpretation, its actually dependent on Frame of reference... you must have gone through the Magnetic Fields, one is DOT and one is CROSS, thou both are equal in magnitude for a magnitude, just vary in terms of their propagation and your frame of reference... same way, here +ve and -ve are taken.

G@g@n said...

i dnt noe if u r right....but u dnt seem to b wrong....lolz!
see as u noe i m not that mch into laws n principles.....
but u seem to be enjoying flirting wid newton's laws!
good goin!

Unknown said...

@ Gagan, hehehe yeah right, sab girls toh aapne fasaa rakhi hai, ladko se mein flirt kar nhi skta.. so.. finally i am left with one option only !!