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The inertial, dynamical, and action–reaction laws of Newtonian particle mechanics, valid in inertial frames within its nonrelativistic classical regime.
These laws are not fundamental across all regimes: relativistic, quantum, field-theoretic, dissipative, and constrained systems require more general formulations.
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The second law relates net force to momentum change, reducing to at constant mass.
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Newton’s second law is most generally written as a momentum-balance equation.
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Newton’s laws supply the standard particle-law formulation of Newtonian mechanics.
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