Newton's famous equation F=ma is often presented without much discussion or motivation. In these notes I discuss: "Why does F = ma?" http://cognitivemedium.com/f-ma
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
side point: it always seemed to me to be a way better way to teach conservation of momentum, energy, angular momentum, angular energy and so on by just explicitly integrating f=ma in different ways, but that doesn’t seem to be how we teach it. it feels much more logical
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