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This image is used on the cover of the First Semester Physics Survival Guide, the book I wrote to help introductory physics students survive and thrive in their first year of physics education. Isaac Newton, the father of first semester physics, sat in an apple orchard one afternoon contemplating the fall of an apple from a tree. He considered what would happen if the apple was thrown horizontally from the tree instead of being allowed to simply fall straight down. From that thought process he realized that the motion of an apple is identical to that of the Moon. From this one brilliant insight we gained an amazing understanding of how things move, both on Earth and in the heavens.
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