About the Project

Porto, Portugal
We are Bárbara, Gonçalo and Pedro, three FORM5 students from Colégio Luso Internacional do Porto, making a school project in the class of LTRD, about persons who changed our World. We earn the Golden Ticket and our job is to investigate the genius Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton Career

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           During the great plague Isaac Newton maintain private studies at his home in Woolsthorpe and made great contributions to science in infinitesimal calculus, building the foundations for his theory of light and color and achieving significant insight into the problem of planetary motion. In April 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge and was elected a minor fellow at Trinity becoming a senior fellow after taking his Master of Arts degree in 1669. Before he had reached his 27th birthday, he already was Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge.
         From 1670 to 1672, Newton investigated the refraction of light, demonstrating that a prism could decompose white light into a spectrum of many colours and that a lens and a second prism could recompose those colours spectrum into white light.
Since 1679, he centered his studies on celestial mechanics, investigating gravitation and its effect on the orbits of planets. He published his book “The Principia” on 5 July of 1687, which contains the description of the three universal laws of motion. For the concept of gravity, he used the Latin word “gravitas”, which means weight, and defined the law of universal gravitation.

By: Gonçalo Pereira
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Isaac Newton Career

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During the great plague Isaac Newton maintain private studies at his home in Woolsthorpe and made great contributions to science in infinitesimal calculus, building the foundations for his theory of light and color and achieving significant insight into the problem of planetary motion. In April 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge and was elected a minor fellow at Trinity becoming a senior fellow after taking his Master of Arts degree in 1669. Before he had reached his 27th birthday, he already was Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge.
From 1670 to 1672, Newton investigated the refraction of light, demonstrating that a prism could decompose white light into a spectrum of many colours and that a lens and a second prism could recompose those colours spectrum into white light.
Since 1679, he centered his studies on celestial mechanics, investigating gravitation and its effect on the orbits of planets. He published his book “The Principia” on 5 July of 1687, which contains the description of the three universal laws of motion. For the concept of gravity, he used the Latin word “gravitas”, which means weight, and defined the law of universal gravitation.

By: Gonçalo Pereira
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Isaac Newton Education

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From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King's School, Grantham. By October 1659, he was removed from school, and went to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, where his mother, widow for the second time, attempted to make a farmer of him. He hated farming. Henry Stokes, Master at the King's School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his education. Motivated partly by a desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully, he became an amazing student. In June 1661 he left Woolsthorpe for Cambridge University and by 1665 took his bachelor's degree at Cambridge without honors or distinction.

By :Gonçalo Pereira
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Interview

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Pedro: Mr. Newton, why didn’t you like farming?
Newton: I didn´t like farming because of the smell of the animals.
Gonçalo: Mr. Newton, what effect had the apple that fell on your head?
Newton: Apart the severe headache it caused?
Gonçalo: Yes.
Newton: Well, it made me think. When that apple fell on my head, i started thinking why that apple fell and how. Why the apple came down instead of risind into the sky. So simple and nobody thought that before.
Pedro: That was the reason why you discovered the universal law of gravitation, right?
Newton: Yes! And it led me to the three laws of motion. It's a great lesson to you kids: sometimes, headaches are very useful. 
Gonçalo: Did you liked King´s School?
Newton: Oh yes! I especially liked my master who inspired me to be a scientist!
Pedro: Mr. Newton thanks for coming.
Gonçalo: It was a privilege talking with such a great genius. You are a huge inspiration to all students.
By: Pedro Brito, Bárbara and Gonçalo
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The Discovery of Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton was resting under an apple tree when an apple fall on his head.  That circumstance led him to thought about the universal of gravitation. Newton also discovered the three laws of motion:


1. Every object in a state of uniform tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.


2. Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed (to accelerate the object).


3. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
     
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The Life of Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton was born on January 4th, 1643 in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. He never met his father, because he died three months before Newton was born. He was a rich farmer, Newton’s mother got married again and left 6 year old little Isaac with his grandparents.


He died on March 31th in the year of 1727 and left a noticeable amount of  important scientific work.


By:Barbara Vieira
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Isaac Newton and the gravity laws

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One day, when Isaac Newton was sitting on the grass reading a book under a apple tree, a apple fell on his head. Then, he thought:


- How did this apple fell? Why it couldn't rise into the sky?


He thought, thought, thought... and thought again many times and discovered the laws of gravity. He understood gravity as a force that attracts objects. The mass of the Earth is so big that attracts everything near the planet, preventing those objects to escape into the space.


by:Gonçalo Pereira
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