Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Inertia

How does Newton's first law of motion relate to inertia?

6 comments:

aaron peterson said...

Interia is the tendency of an object to remain in the same direction and velocity of motion. The first law of motion states this in a much more elborate way. You could sum the first law of motion into one word: inertia.

amanda said...

It relates quite nicely. Newtons first law is just a more precise way of stating the definition of inertia. Inertia is the tendency of an oject to stay in the same direction and velocity.

ale said...

The First Law describes what happens when the forces acting on a body are balanced. It doesn't have resultant force acts. The body remains at rest or continues to move at constant velocity (constant speed in a straight line).

jacob ochsner said...

Inertia is the tendency of something to keep going in the same direction at the same speed. This is newton's first law. They are the same thing.

Washington Irving said...

Inertia is the tendaency of an object in motion to remain in motio n in the same direction and velocity. The first law of motion talks about it. It' like if a ball is rolling it's going to keep rolling because of its inertia and it won't stop unless something else makes it stop.

streckfuss said...

Inertia is the tendency of an object to remain in the same direction and velocity of motion. The first law basically deals with inertia. It relates pretty closely.