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Apple is a fruit.

Apple trees are large if grown from seed.


Generally apple cultivars are propagated
by grafting onto rootstocks, which control the
size of the resulting tree. There are more than
7,500 known cultivars of apples, resulting in a
range of desired characteristics.
Different cultivars are bred for various tastes
and uses, including cooking, eating raw
and cider production. Trees and fruit are
prone to a number of fungal, bacterial and
pest problems, which can be controlled by a
number of organic and non-organic means. In
2010, the fruit's genome was sequenced as
part of research on disease control and
selective breeding in apple production.

However…… Apple has a HISTORY which is very much the


reason to the laws in physics!!
WONDERING HOW?

ALL the way back to over 300 years,

The story came from:

It is one of the most famous anecdotes in the history of science. The young Isaac Newton is
sitting in his garden when an apple falls on his head and, in a stroke of brilliant insight, he
suddenly comes up with his theory of gravity.
HOWEVER HOW TRUE IS THIS? Let’s look into it …

Based on researches a legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple
tree when he was hit on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment”
that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn’t go
down quite like that. Newton, the son of a farmer, was born in 1642 near Grantham, England,
and entered Cambridge University in 1661. Four years later, following an outbreak of the
bubonic plague, the school temporarily closed, forcing Newton to move back to his childhood
home, Woolsthorpe Manor. It was during this period at Woolsthorpe (Newton returned to
Cambridge in 1667) that he was in the orchard there and witnessed an apple drop from a
tree. There’s no evidence to suggest the fruit actually landed on his head, but Newton’s
observation caused him to ponder why apples always fall straight to the ground (rather than
sideways or upward) and helped inspired him to eventually develop his law of universal
gravitation. In 1687, Newton first published this principle, which states that every body in
the universe is attracted to every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the
product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between
them, in his landmark work the “Principia,” which also features his three laws of motion.

In 1726, Newton shared the apple anecdote with William Stukeley, who included it in a
biography, “Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life,” published in 1752. According to Stukeley,
“After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden, & drank tea under the
shade of some apple trees… he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly,
the notion of gravitation came into his mind…. occasion’d by the fall of an apple, as he sat
in a contemplative mood.”

The esteemed mathematician and physicist died in 1727 and was buried at Westminster
Abbey. His famous apple tree continues to grow at Woolsthorpe Manor.
WHAT ARE THE LAWS OF MOTION?

Newton developed three laws of motion.

The first is the definition of inertia: “any object will remain at rest or in motion in a straight
line unless forced to change by the application of an external force.”

Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, and objects at rest tend to stay at rest, unless acted
upon by an outside force.

The second law explains how the velocity of an object can changes when an additional force
is applied. The second law simply states that the force needed to accelerate an object equals
the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration.

The formula is: Force = Mass X Acceleration.

The third law states that for every action (or force), there is an equal and opposite reaction.
For example, when you stand on something soft, the object caves in or is pushed down. This
is the reaction of your force on the soft object, and the soft object's reaction to you standing
on it.
AND NOW ….. APPLE HAS BEEN SO ADVANCED AND WE HAVE

WE HAVE DEVICES WITH THE NAME OF APPLE!

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