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Game Physics Engine Development, 2nd Edition
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Game Physics Engine Development, 2nd Edition

by Ian Millington
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
16h 56m
English
CRC Press
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3.2 The First Two Laws 49
3.2 The First Two Laws
There are three laws of motion put forward by Newton; for now we will need only
the first two. They deal with the way an object behaves in the presence and absence of
forces.
The first two laws of motion foll ow:
1. An object continues with a constant velocity unless a force acts upon it.
2. A force acting on an object produces acceleration that is proportional to the
object’s mass.
The First Law
The first law tells us what happens if there are no forces around. The object w ill con-
tinue to move with a constant velocity. In other words, the velocity of the particle
will never change, and its position
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