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16 CHAPTER 3. PARTICLE DYNAMICS<br />
direction capture the effects of the interaction of this particle with other particles in the system.<br />
Newton’s laws stipulate how forces exerted on particles affect their motion.<br />
We will say that the particle is isolated if there is no force acting on it.<br />
Definition 5 (Newton’s First Law) Inertial systems exists. Isolated particles move uniformly<br />
in an inertial system.<br />
The first law says that if there is no force acting on a particle then it must move uniformly<br />
in an inertial system. If it does not move uniformly (accelerates or decelerates) then there must<br />
be a force acting on it or the system is not inertial (the “missing” force, that would have to be<br />
exerted on the particle in order to make it exhibit the observed behavior in an inertial system, is<br />
called the inertial force). We will restrict ourselves to inertial systems only.<br />
Let us define the linear momentum P (t) of a particle at time t as<br />
P (t) = m · v(t). (3.1)<br />
The momentum characterizes the kinetic state of the particle and the first law can be then<br />
interpreted in that way that the linear momentum of a particle in an inertial system can only<br />
change in response to a force acting on that particle. The second Newton’s law, defined below,<br />
elaborates more on this and defines what the actual relation between an exerted force and the<br />
change of the linear momentum is.<br />
Definition 6 (Newton’s Second Law) If F (t) is a force acting on a particle with the linear<br />
momentum P (t) then<br />
F (t) = ∂<br />
∂t ∂m · v(t)<br />
P (t) = = m ·<br />
∂t<br />
∂<br />
v(t) = m · a(t)<br />
∂t<br />
and the particle will gain an acceleration a(t) = F (t)/m.<br />
If we have a set of forces F1(t), . . . , Fn(t) acting on the same particle then the net effect equals<br />
the effect due to a single force Ftotal(t) = F1(t) + . . . + Fn(t) (superposition principle).<br />
Definition 7 (Newton’s Third Law) If force FAB(t) due to particle A is exerted on particle<br />
B by particle A (action force), then FBA(t) = − FAB(t) is exerted on A by particle B (reaction<br />
force). Both the forces lie on the same line of action, and begin/stop acting at the same time.<br />
Particle system is a collection of particles. If the system consists of N particles with masses<br />
m1, . . . , mN and positions r1(t), . . . , rN(t) then the total mass M and the center of mass rcm of<br />
the particle system are defined as<br />
N<br />
Ni=1 mi · ri(t)<br />
M = mi, rcm(t) =<br />
.<br />
M<br />
i=1<br />
The total mass is defined simply as a sum of the particle masses and the center of mass as a<br />
weighted sum (convex combination) of the particle positions. The sum weights (coefficients of<br />
the convex combination) are proportional to the particle masses relative to the total mass. If all<br />
particles had the same mass then the center of mass of the particle system would correspond to<br />
the geometric center (average) of the particle system.<br />
Let F j<br />
(t) be the<br />
i , 1 ≤ j ≤ n be all forces acting on particle i in the particle system and F total<br />
i<br />
sum of those forces. This sum can be decomposed to the sum of internal forces (denoted F int<br />
i (t),