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the surface of the Earth the nature of inertia is often masked by the effects of... The law of inertia states that it is the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion... s concept of inertia would later come to be refined and codified by... Kepler defined inertia only in terms of a resistance to movement... s concept of inertia remained unchanged from Newton... in which inertia still means the same... then inertia must also apply to energy as well... also served to radically expand the definition of inertia in some contexts to apply to a much wider context including energy as well as... s inertia ensured that it continued to move in the same speed and direction as the train... it is inertia which ensured that... the principle of inertia is intimately linked with the principles of... Rotational inertia often has hidden practical consequences... Inertia and Special Relativity...

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