In real life, laws are broken all the time. Besides your everyday criminals, there are scammers and fraudsters, politicians and mobsters, corporations and nations that regard laws as suggestions ...

Physics, especially the part about forces and motion, often feels like a maze of confusing concepts and formulas. If you’ve ever stared at a problem about an object moving or a force acting and ...

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January 2020), pp. 1-43 (43 pages) In French mechanical treatises of the nineteenth century, Newton's second law of motion was frequently derived ...