Friday 12 April 2013

  • Concept of inertia....
  • All objects tend to continue what they are doing.
  • An object at real tends to remain at rest, while an object in motion tends to stay in motion in a straight line with the same speed unless being acted upon by an unbalanced force.
  • Only an external force (on non-zero net force) can cause a change to the state of motion of an object (either at rest or moving with the same speed in a straight line).
  • However, the object will resist any attempt to do so.The Tedency of an object to resist changes to its state of motion is described as inertia. Everything has inertia , making it reluctant to move or to stop.
  • Newton's first law of motion (also known as the Law of Inertia)states that:

An object at rest tends to stay at rest and a moving object tends to continue its uniform motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless being acted upon by an external force.

  • The external force is a non-zero net force, if more than one external force acts on the object.

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