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[Christopher Robin]

could someone please explain inertia to me? i'm writing a paper in science about it, and this is what i have so far, translated by google into english, cause im in french immersion.

inertia is cause by the resistance of an object has exchange they state of movement. Its resistance is the tendency naturalness of the objects. Many the people think that the arrete objects has bulge because the absence of a force, but its is not correct. It is because there is a force which arretez the object. Its force are the friction. If there is no friction then inertia would keep the object going forever.

[Archon]

I think wiki will be your friend with this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia

Good luck!

[Christopher Robin]

wewt thanks this should just about do it, thanks, art!

this CAN be closed, unless people wanna discuss the 1337ness of inertia

[Fatal]

wewt thanks this should just about do it, thanks, art!

this CAN be closed, unless people wanna discuss the 1337ness of inertia

inertia is the leetest thing ever, jw but what grade are you in? im in 8th and I learned a bit about it,




# The tendency of an object at rest to remain at rest, and of an object in motion to remain in motion.
urban.arch.virginia.edu/~km6e/references/glossary/struc-glossary.html

# A property of matter that causes it to resist changes in speed or direction (velocity).
science.nasa.gov/newhome/help/glossary.htm

# A descriptive term for that property of a body which resists change in its motion. Two kinds of changes of motion are recognized: changes in translational motion, and changes in rotational motion.
www.physlink.com/Reference/Glossary.cfm

# The tendency of an object to continue in motion at the same speed and in the same direction, unless acted upon by a force.
astronomy.nju.edu.cn/astron/AT3/GLOSS_I.HTM

# "An object in motion will remain in motion, and an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force."
www2.newton.mec.edu/~mike_sylvia/DRAGSTERS/glossary.html

# The property of an object to resist changes in velocity unless acted upon by an outside force. Higher inertia objects require larger torques to accelerate and decelerate. Inertia is dependent upon the mass and shape of the object.
www.servomag.com/reference/glossary.htm

# The reluctance of any object to change its state of motion. Mass is the measure of inertia.
www.mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/science/glossary.shtml

# Inertia is a tendency of an object to resist change in its state of motion. More massive objects have more inertia; that is, they have more tendency to resist changes in the way they are moving. An elephant has a lot of inertia, for example. If it is at rest, it offers a large resistance to changes in its state of rest, and so it's difficult to move an elephant. On the other hand, a pencil has a small amount of inertia. It's easy to move a pencil from its state of rest. ...
www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/glossary.html

# Inertia is a property of matter: a mass at rest remains at rest and a mass in motion remains in motion as long as no outside force acts upon it.
www.ccastronomy.org/terminology.htm

# A measure of a body’s resistance to changes in velocity, whether the body is at rest or moving at a constant speed. The velocity can be either lineal or rotational. The moment of inertia (WK 2 ) is the product of the weight (W) of an object and the square of the radius of gyration (K 2 ). The radius of gyration is a measure of how the mass of the object is distributed about the axis of rotation. WK 2 is usually expressed in units of lb. ft. 2 .
www.usmotors.com/Terms/1-122-I.htm

# Tendency of a body to remain at rest or move in straight line.
www.fisicx.com/quickreference/science/glossary.html

# Any motion or movement that is not in a straight line but remains constant in velocity.
www.dynamometers.org/info/dynamometers/def.htm

# A measure of an object’s resistance to a change in velocity. The force needed to accelerate or decelerate an object is directly proportional to its mass. The torque required to rotationally accelerate or decelerate a cylindrical object is directly proportional to its mass and radius.
www.microkinetics.com/glossary.html

# the tendency for matter to continue moving in a straight line
www.natureshift.org/robotLab/glossary.html

# the property of physical matter to remain at rest unless acted on by some external force. inertia usually concerns the driven load.
www.gouldspumps.com/motor_0006.html

# the tendency of objects to remain in an existing state of motion: for a body that is stationary to remain stationary, and for a moving body to keep on moving in the same direction at the same speed
hub1.worlded.org/docs/lowell/PHYSICS.htm

# is the apparent resistance an object offers to any change in its state of rest or of motion.
www.dac.neu.edu/physics/b.maheswaran/phy1121/data/glos/glossary.htm

# resistance to motion, mass
www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/phy322s/glossary.htm

# the reluctance of all matter to change its state of rest or uniform motion; the tendency of all objects to preserve its motion
www.sciencebyjones.com/physics_definitions.htm

# Similar to mass, inertia is the property of an object that opposes any change in motion. Inertia is measured using the same units as those used to measure mass.
www.discoverhover.org/infoinstructors/vocab.htm

# is a resistance to any change in motion. In other words it is a resistance to acceleration. The more inertia an object has, then the larger the force necessary to produce a specific acceleration. Mass is associated with inertia. Larger masses have more inertia, and smaller masses have less inertia.
faculty.eicc.edu/tgibbons/terms.htm

# Resistance to motion, movement, travel or release of a mechanism.
www.trimarkcorp.com/goweb/corporate/glossary.jsp

# the property of a body, due to its mass, that causes it to resist any change in its motion unless overcome by a force
www.mrs-twedt.com/fcat_science_glossary_part_1.htm

# inactiveness: a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

# Inertia is the tendency of any state of affairs to persist in the absence of external influences. Specifically, in physics, it is the tendency of a body to maintain its state of uniform motion unless acted on by an external force. (This is called Newton's first law of motion, taken from Galileo's principle.) The term is also used in psychology to describe a person's resistance to change.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia

# Inertia is a name used by two comic book fictional characters, one a Marvel Comics superheroine, one a DC Comics supervillain: *Inertia (Marvel Comics) was a member of the Squadron Supreme and paramour of Haywire*Inertia (DC Comics) is the supervillain clone of Impulse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia_(comics)

# Inertia is a comic book character in the DC Comics universe. He is a clone of Bart Allen, aka Impulse (now Kid Flash), and was created in the 30th century by Bart's maternal grandfather, President Thawne. Thawne, being the descendant of the Flash's enemy Professor Zoom, got tired of his grandson's crime fighting activities in the 20th century and decided to create a clone of Bart using more Thawne blood so that he would be more ruthless. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia_(DC_Comics)

Edited by Fatal, 06 March 2006 - 03:44 PM.

[Christopher Robin]

grade 8 xD french immersion, i pwn yo ass mo fugga! xD fugg... anyways, yeah....



Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, objects that are still tend to stay still.



^inertia^



see, when i throw a cat, it WOULD keep going ue to inertia, BUT there is friction to counterract the inertia, which in turn shall give the feline carpet bur.

[Secret Santa]

I did inertia a few years ago It was one of the only concepts I actually understood in science

[muffinsforgod]

I will post a link I found on google

http://www.glenbrook...laws/u2l1b.html

I just typed in inertia

[Christopher Robin]

dude weird, thats the first site i was at for research for the paper