Trouble With Newton's First Law: Whose Straight Line Is It Anyway?

Trouble With Newton's First Law: Whose Straight Line Is It Anyway?

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708 Video Views·Jan 9, 2026

Motion, Episode 1
Everyone has been taught Newton's Laws of Motion at school, but you're not ever told what's really interesting about them. Do you really know the fascinating physics behind Newton's Laws?

In this episode, we unpack Newton's First Law, and discover some hidden problems that lead to some troubling issues in Newtonian Mechanics. Asking simple questions about simple physics will take us on the start of the journey to understanding Einstein's Special Relativity.

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