Second Law of Motion is the real law of Motion Physics Notes
Second Law of Motion is the real law of Motion:
(A) First law is contained in the second law:
According to Newton’s second law of motion, the force acting on a body is given by:

Thus there is no force is applied on the body then the body at rest will remains at rest and a body in uniform motion will continue to move uniformly along the same straight path. Hence first law of motion is contained in the second law.
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(B) Third law is contained in the second law: consider an isolated system of two bodies A and B suppose the two bodies interact mutually with one another, Let \(\vec{F}_{B A}\) be the force (action) exerted by A or B.
Let \(\frac{d \overrightarrow{p_{B}}}{d t}\) be the resulting charge of momentum of B.
Let \(\vec{F}_{B A}\) be the force (reaction) exerted by B or A Let \(\frac{d \overrightarrow{p_{A}}}{d t}\) be the resulting change of momentom of A
According to Newtons IInd law of motion:

in the absence of external force, the rate of change in momentum must be zero.
\(\overrightarrow{F_{B A}}+\overrightarrow{F_{A B}}\) =0 ⇒ \(\vec{F}_{B A}=-\vec{F}_{A B}\)
This indicate Newton’s IIIrd law of motion we can say that Newton’s IIIrd law is the real law of motion.