Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
Newton’s Laws of Motion
Every object or character has weight and moves only when a force is applied to it. This is Newton’s first law of motion. An object at rest tends to remain at rest until a force moves it, and once it is moving it tends to keep moving in a straight line until another force stops it.
The heavier an object is, or strictly speaking, the greater its mass, the more the force is required to change its motion. A heavy body has more inertia and more momentum than a light one.
A heavy object at rest, such as a cannonball, needs a lot of force to move it (Fig. 16A). When fired from a cannon, the force of the charge acts on the cannonball only while it is in the gun barrel. Since the force of the explosive charge is very large indeed, ...
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