PHYSICS 50 POINTS PLEASE HELP State Newton's first and second laws of motion. Use these laws to explain how a satellite remains in orbit around the earth.

One way to look at Newton’s three laws of motion is this:

The third law states what forces are. That is, all forces are interactions between two different objects. If one object is interacting with another, then equal and opposite forces act on each object. So no force acts alone. When you exert a force on something, it is exerting the identical force back on you.

The first and second laws deal with the consequences of the forces that act on an object. The first law says that in the absence of a net force on an object, it simply continues doing whatever it was already doing. If it is at rest, it will remain at rest. If it is in motion, it will continue with that same motion - at constant speed and in the direction it was already traveling.

The second law says what happens if there is a net force on the object. In that case, the object accelerates - either by changing its speed, its direction, or both - in proportion and in the direction of the net force that acts on it. The amount of acceleration depends the object’s mass. That is, the larger the mass the smaller the acceleration for a given net force. The first and second laws can be summarized in the mathematical expression

F = ma

where F is the vector sum of all the forces that act on the object at any given moment (i.e., the net force), m is the mass of the object, and a is the acceleration of the object due to the net force at that moment - and is always in the same direction of the net force.

And notice that in a way, the first law is then “contained” within the second. That is, if the net force is zero on an object, then so is the acceleration. That is, either the object is (still) at rest or, if already in motion, the velocity didn’t change, in either case, the acceleration was zero.

Explanation:

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out of the two, (b) precision would be more reasonable.   however, both a and b could be pretty reasonable.

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