inertia

inertia

The property of an object to resist acceleration. As one of the most basic concepts of physics, it is still poorly understood. It is believed to be a property of bodies primarily due to their interaction with masses at the edges of the Universe. Momentum (mass times velocity) is a measure of inertia and changes in momentum, which must be due to a force, permit a measure of inertial mass. 


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