Newton’s 1st Law (Law of Inertia)
Written by Levi Clancy
First published
July 19, 2008
Last modified
August 25, 2011
An object’s velocty will not change unless a force acts on the object. Therefore, if not net force acts upon an object then:
- an object at rest will remain at rest
- a moving object will maintan constant velocity.
This natural resistance to change is the inertia. The mass of an object measures its inertia. Mass and weight are not the same, however.
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