Tag
Inertia
Entries tagged inertia.
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Concept
Inertia and the persistence of motion
Inertia is the tendency of an object to keep whatever velocity it already has, constant speed in a constant direction, unless something acts on it to change that velocity, which means force is needed to change motion, not to maintain it.
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ConceptMass as resistance to acceleration
Mass is not how much stuff an object has or how big it looks; it is a measured resistance, how much acceleration a given force fails to produce.
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