Week 8 Catch up Newton's three laws and me

My poor little brother. We always teased him because he would drop things, break things, spill things, bump into things. He used to be incredibly clumsy, although when it came to his gross motor skills in sports he was really precise and proficient. At home though, he was pretty much like a bull in a china shop. He was the force that would change the state of motion of any given object around him. Then we found out that he had a condition called Dyspraxia, which is an impairment of the organization of movement and very much affects coordination. Don't feel too badly for him though- he now likes to overuse his dyspraxia as an excuse for everything he messes up- even things that aren't really relevant to his condition.

Speaking of my brother, he has grown up mainly in England, where you pretty much have to be a football (soccer) fan whether you like it or not. His obsession leaked out on to me and so when I think about "The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the force acting on it" I am reminded of the major force with which the players kick the ball, accelerating it at an incredible (directly proportional) speed, a la Stevie Gerrard


"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" There is an obvious connection to the laws of cause and effect, as minor as when you put an egg in boiling water and it cooks, or as major as the millions of ways that we are polluting our planet and the immense damage that it has done on our health, our environment and the animals. We are probably only witnessing a fraction of the reactions that will occur due to to ours and past generations treatment of the earth.