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Inertia is the characteristic of an object that resists change in motion.

Inertia is quantified as mass. We say a 2 kg object has twice the inertia as a 1 kg object.

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We say that Newton's first law is the law of inertia. Basically, Newton's first law asserts that this characteristic exists and is associated with all objects.

(A thousand years ago, people believed in magic and all sorts of things, so an assertion that there is something called inertia and it is a universal characteristic is not so trivial as it might sound now. As a side note, this law of nature was known before Newton, specifically, we know that Galileo had the correct formulation.)

One quantifies this characteristic of inertia with mass. Mass is the thing that tells us how acceleration is proportional to force. We say a 2 kg object has twice the inertia as a 1 kg object. Newton's second law says this works the same for all object and the proportionality is the same for all forces.

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Inertia (from latin, meaning idleness, lack of skill, laziness)

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Inertia is a property of matter which resists change in motion, as described by Newton's laws of motion.

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Inertia is the property of matter that resists a change in motion.

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It is called inertia.

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