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inertia inertia - (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force. natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; his favorite subject was physics.
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inertia inertia (inur´shə), n according to Newton's law of inertia, the tendency of a body that is at rest to remain at rest and a body that is in motion to continue in motion with constant speed in the same straight line unless acted on by an outside force. inertia. inactivity, inability to move spontaneously.
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inertia 1. Physics The tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force; the resistance of a body to changes in momentum. 2. Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change: an entrenched bureaucracy's inertia.
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inertia Physics The tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force; the resistance of a body to changes in momentum. Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change: an entrenched bureaucracy's inertia.
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Inertia On the surface of the Earth, inertia is often masked by the effects of friction and air resistance, both of which tend to decrease the speed of moving objects (commonly to the point of rest), and gravity.
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Explore Plate, Dishes, and more! Inertia is the property of a body which resists a change in its state of rest or of uniform motion. Mass is the measure of inertia. Heavier objects have more inertia than the lighter objects and greater force will be needed to bring a change in the state of heavier objects than the lighter objects.
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What is Inertia for Kids? And similarly, inertia also involves the state of moving objects and that these objects will continue to move unless some force will make it stop moving. In common application, inertia calculates the amount of resistance of a particular object to a change in velocity or to the objects’ momentum. For a moving object for example, momentum refers to the measurement of how hard or how easy it is to stop the object from moving.
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What do area moment of inertia and mass moment of inertia physically mean? 1 Moment of Inertia: It is a measure of an object’s resistance to changes its state of rotation.  Mass Moment of Inertia characterizes the angular acceleration undergone by a solid when subjected to a torque. Mass Moment of Inertia for a body depends on the body’s mass and the location of the mass. The greater the distance the mass is from the axis of rotation, the larger Mass Moment of Inertia will be. Mass Moment of Inertia indicates resistance of the body to angular acceleration.
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What is the difference between momentum and inertia? Inertia and momentum are two concept involved in the study of motion of solid bodies. Momentum and inertia are used to describe the current state of the object. Both inertia and momentum are concepts related to the mass of the object. Inertia and momentum are relativistic variants, which mean the equations for calculating these properties vary when the velocity of the object approaches the speed of light.
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inertia 2. (General Physics) physics. a. the tendency of a body to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force. b. an analogous property of other physical quantities that resist change: thermal inertia.
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Inertia and Mass Absolutely yes! The tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion varies with mass. Mass is that quantity that is solely dependent upon the inertia of an object. The more inertia that an object has, the more mass that it has. A more massive object has a greater tendency to resist changes in its state of motion. Suppose that there are two seemingly identical bricks at rest on the physics lecture table. Yet one brick consists of mortar and the other brick consists of Styrofoam.
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4th Grade Science - Relative Position and Motion; Inquiry Process - Observation, properties, inference, and evidence 8.1 - An objects inertia causes it to continue moving the way it is moving unless it is acted upon by an outside force to change its motion. a) The motion of an object can be described by its position, direction of motion and speed. c) Objects moving in circles must experience net force acting toward the center.
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INERTIA Domain category: natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of inertia): moment of inertia (the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration)
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- Physics. 1  the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force. 2  an analogous property of a force: electric inertia.
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- The moment of inertia is defined with respect to an axis of rotation. For example, the moment of inertia of a circular disk spinning about an axis through its center perpendicular to the plane of the disk differs from the moment of inertia of a disk spinning about an axis through its center in the plane of the disk.
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Anyone know what unit inertia is measured in? Inertia is scientific principle and not a property of matter. It is not quantifiable in the way you are suggesting, and it has no units. Inertia is the principle that a body will continue to move in the same way (that is, at the same velocity) unless acted on by a force.he mass of a body determines the momentum P of the body at given velocity v; it is a proportionality factor in the formula: P = mv The factor m is referred to as inertial mass.
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- Join us! Explain how Newton's law of inertia describes the motion of objects. Answers. An object at rest stays at rest an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This question is archived.
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CONTENTS unit for measuring work. inertia. the tendency of a moving object to keep moving in a straight line or of any object to resist a change in motion. law of conservation of energy. the theory that states that energy may change form, but it cannot be created or destroyed. kinetic energy. the energy of a moving object.
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Moment of inertia Moment of inertia also appears in momentum, kinetic energy, and in Newton's laws of motion for a rigid body as a physical parameter that combines its shape and mass. There is an interesting difference in the way moment of inertia appears in planar and spatial movement.
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Inertia Another form of inertia is rotational inertia (→ moment of inertia), the property that a rotating rigid body maintains its state of uniform rotational motion. Its angular momentum is unchanged, unless an external torque is applied; this is also called conservation of angular momentum.
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- Inertia is dependent on the mass of the object being considered, and sometimes by its momentum - depending on how we are using the term. Recall that inertia is the resistance …of a body to a change in motion. (A body at rest tends to remain at rest unless acted on by an outside force. And, a body in motion tends to remain in motion unless acted on by an outside force.)   We think of something massive as resistive to being moved. That's inertia.
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- The definition of the word “inertia” doesn’t have any reference to an object’s speed. Inertia is an object’s resistance to changes in velocity…which is just it’s mass. (Which we call “inertial mass” for this reason).
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Inertia Definition of Inertia in Physics. Science. Inertia is the name for the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest unless acted upon by a force. This concept was quantified in Newton's First Law of Motion.
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Inertia and Mass The tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion varies with mass. Mass is that quantity that is solely dependent upon the inertia of an object. The more inertia that an object has, the more mass that it has. A more massive object has a greater tendency to resist changes in its state of motion. Suppose that there are two seemingly identical bricks at rest on the physics lecture table. Yet one brick consists of mortar and the other brick consists of Styrofoam.
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Inertia The term inertia is more properly understood as shorthand for the principle of inertia as described by Newton in his First Law of Motion: an object not subject to any net external force moves at a constant velocity. Thus, an object will continue moving at its current velocity until some force causes its speed or direction to change.
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inertia Inertia is a physics term. Isaac Newtown discovered that a body at rest would stay at rest and a body moving through space would continue moving through space unless an external force (like friction or gravity) caused it to slow down or stop.