Week Nine - Newton's Three Laws, "Energy Efficient", Descartes

Newton's Three Laws:
1. Objects at rest remain at rest, and objects in motion remain in motion in a straight line at constant velocity. A force must be applied to change the state of motion of an object.
2. The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the force acting on it, and inversely proportional to its mass.
3. If two objects interact, say in a collision, the force exerted by object 1 on object 2 is matched by a force of exerted by object 2 on object 1 of the same size, but in the opposite direction.

In an abstract way - we can almost apply Newton's third law to classicism.

The rich have the larger mass of influenced, and are privileged to go at a slow pace - while the poor have a smaller mass and need to take a lot more action in comparison in relation to the rich if they want to have the same force.  When the rich and the poor collide, in order for the two types of class to match, the poor will have to put in an incredible amount of effort and the rich have to do little to nothing.


This idea can be applied to our "Energy Efficient Culture". For example, if the world wanted to help decrease the waste and pollution in the world in order for our energy to be more efficient - hypothetically - the entire population of low income people would have to come together to reduce all of their waste and be completely Eco friendly. Where in comparison, I would assume if half the major corporations went completely Eco-friendly and no waste, there would be a drastically larger change. Because of the larger "mass" and waste that the major corporations have, they have to do a lot less in order to have the same results as a large number of low income people.

In a sense, if we looked at the larger picture instead of all its parts, we can see the bigger changes  we can do as a society (ie stopping all factory waste) rather than spending so much effort in the small cogs (ie plastic straws). would make a more efficient amount of change.