What did her addition to Newtonian mechanics lead to?
Conceptualization of energy
Segregation of colors
Invention of time travel
Conflict with the church
Answer
The conceptualization of energy was a key development in physics, and it was partly inspired by the work of Émilie du Châtelet. In her translation of Newton's Principia, du Châtelet added a new term, "force vive," which she defined as the product of mass and velocity. This term was later translated into English as "living force," and it eventually led to the development of the concept of energy.
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