Newton made several important contributions including developing calculus, discovering that white light is composed of rainbow colors, inventing the reflecting telescope, and formulating his laws of motion and universal law of gravitation. Newton's First Law, also known as the law of inertia, states that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Balanced forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction produce no motion, while unbalanced forces that are unequal can cause an object to change its motion. Some examples given are a soccer ball at rest requiring a kick to change its motion, and two equal tug of war teams exerting