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Newton didn't give second law of motion, says new paper by Indian official

In Isaac Newton’s time, the terms “acceleration” and “second derivative” did not exist, so he could not have deduced F=ma, the second law of motion. This has been unscientifically credited to Newton, says a research paper. The paper “Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler and F=ma” was written by Ajay Sharma, assistant director for education with the Himachal Pradesh government. “Newton gave a velocity dependent force and Euler an acceleration dependent force. […]