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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),

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