List of things named after Isaac Newton
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This is a list of things named after Isaac Newton.
Disambiguation
- Newton number: (in mathematics) see kissing number; (in physics) see power number ;
Mathematics
- Gauss–Newton algorithm
- Newton–Cotes formulas
- Newton–Okounkov body
- Newton–Pepys problem
- Newton fractal
- Newton's identities
- Newton's inequalities
- Newton's method also known as Newton–Raphson
- Newton's method in optimization
- Newton's notation
- Newton number (mathematics), see Newton number above.
- Newton polygon
- Newton polynomial
- Newton series (finite differences) also known as Newton interpolation, see Newton polynomial
- Newton's theorem about ovals
- Truncated Newton method
Physics
- Newton's bucket, see bucket argument
- Newton's cannonball
- Newton's constant, see universal gravitational constant
- Newton's cradle
- Newton disc
- Newton–Cartan theory
- Newton–Euler equations
- Newton's law of cooling
- Newton's laws of motion
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Newton's metal
- Newton number (physics), see Newton number above.
- Newton's reflector, see also Newtonian telescope - a different design
- Newton's rings
- Newton's rotating sphere argument, see rotating spheres
- Newton scale
- Newton's sphere theorem, see shell theorem
- Newton telescope, see Newtonian telescope
- Newton's theorem of revolving orbits
- Schrödinger–Newton equations
- Newton (unit), the International System of Units (SI) derived unit of force.
Newtonian
- Newtonianism, the philosophical principle of applying Newton's methods in a variety of fields
- Newtonian cosmology
- Newtonian dynamics
- Newtonian fluid, a fluid that flows like water—its shear stress is linearly proportional to the velocity gradient in the direction perpendicular to the plane of shear
- Non-Newtonian fluids, in which the viscosity changes with the applied shear force
- Newtonian mechanics, also known as classical mechanics
- Newtonian telescope, a type of reflecting telescope
- Post-Newtonian expansion
- Post-Newtonian formalism
Other
- Isaac Newton Institute
- Isaac Newton Telescope
- Newton (Blake), a painting by William Blake about Isaac Newton
- Newton Township, Miami County, Ohio, in the United States
- Newton (platform), a 1990s personal digital assistant by Apple Inc
- Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form, a specialist maths and science school.
