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law of motion

n. one of three basic laws of classical mechanics [syn: Newton's law of motion, Newton's law]

Usage examples of "law of motion".

This theory changes not the law of gravity, but Newton's law of motion: force equals mass times acceleration.

Momentum, reaction, any law of motion that makes time a part of the statement.

Like Newtons third Law of Motion - every force has an equal and opposing force, that kind of thing?

First, spaceship ballistics is a very simple subject, being hardly more than the application of the second law of motion to an inverse-square field.