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The concepts and techniques of calculus are indispensable for the description and study of dynamics, the science of motion in space under the action of forces. Both were created by Isaac Newton in the late seventeenth century and they revolutionized both mathematics and physics. In this chapter we describe the basic concepts and laws of the dynamics of point masses and deduce some of their mathematical consequences.
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Lax, P.D., Terrell, M.S. (2017). Applications to motion. In: Multivariable Calculus with Applications. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74073-7_5
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