What is the force that keeps things from moving?

Answer 1

A force that maintains motion is called inertia. This is the same as to what is normally referred to as momentum.

Answer 2

The word you want is "inertia", but it's not a force, it's the name given to a tendency or quality that matter posesses. Force is the ability to perform work, and an object at rest has no force. That object needs force to put it in motion, and once in motion, it needs an opposing force to stop it.

Answer 3

No force is needed to keep an object moving. An object with no forces on it

keeps moving at a constant speed in a straight line.

If there is any force acting on it to make it slow down, then you need just enough

force to cancel the first one, in order to keep it moving.

Answer 4

Newtons 2nd law of motion states:

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object out of motion will stay out of motion, unless met with an unbalanced force.

Read more: Is_a_force_necessary_to_keep_an_object_in_motion

Answer 5

Inertia pretty much, also you may want to read this:

Newtons 2nd law of motion states:

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object out of motion will stay out of motion, unless met with an unbalanced force.

Read more: Is_a_force_necessary_to_keep_an_object_in_motion

Answer 6

If the 'thing' is sitting on a tabletop, then friction prevents it from moving

horizontally, and the normal constraint force ... the reaction to its weight ...

prevents vertical motion.

If it's hanging on a rope from the ceiling, then the tension in the rope is doing it.

Answer 7

Friction is the force that opposes the motion of objects when they are in contact with each other. It acts in the opposite direction of the force trying to move the object.

Answer 8

The force is called gravity.

No force. It will remain in place until a force acts upon it.

On this planet, friction or glue will do the job.

Answer 9

Friction.

Answer 10

Gravity