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  2. Inertia - Wikipedia

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    Inertia is the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes the velocity to change. It is one of the fundamental principles in classical physics , and described by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion (also known as The Principle of Inertia). [ 1 ]

  3. Cognitive inertia - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive inertia is the tendency for a particular orientation in how an individual thinks about an issue, belief, or strategy to resist change. Clinical and neuroscientific literature often defines it as a lack of motivation to generate distinct cognitive processes needed to attend to a problem or issue.

  4. Inertial frame of reference - Wikipedia

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    Examples of fictitious forces are the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force in rotating reference frames. To apply the Newtonian definition of an inertial frame, the understanding of separation between "fictitious" forces and "real" forces must be made clear. For example, consider a stationary object in an inertial frame.

  5. List of moments of inertia - Wikipedia

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    The moments of inertia of a mass have units of dimension ML 2 ([mass] × [length] 2). It should not be confused with the second moment of area, which has units of dimension L 4 ([length] 4) and is used in beam calculations. The mass moment of inertia is often also known as the rotational inertia, and sometimes as the angular mass.

  6. List of unsolved problems in physics - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of notable unsolved problems grouped into broad areas of physics. [1]Some of the major unsolved problems in physics are theoretical, meaning that existing theories seem incapable of explaining a certain observed phenomenon or experimental result.

  7. Physics of roller coasters - Wikipedia

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    A roller coaster is a machine that uses gravity and inertia to send a train of cars along a winding track. [1] The combination of gravity and inertia, along with g-forces and centripetal acceleration give the body certain sensations as the coaster moves up, down, and around the track. The forces experienced by the rider are constantly changing ...

  8. Moment of inertia - Wikipedia

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    The moment of inertia about an axis perpendicular to the movement of the rigid system and through the center of mass is known as the polar moment of inertia. Specifically, it is the second moment of mass with respect to the orthogonal distance from an axis (or pole).

  9. Inertia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Inertia, an Irish DJ duo, the pairing of John O'Callaghan and Neal Scarborough; Inertia (The Exies album), an album by The Exies; Inertia (Derek Sherinian album), an album by Derek Sherinian "Inertia" (song), by AJR from the album The Maybe Man "Inertia", a song by Blur from the album Leisure "Inertia", a song by Bruce Dickinson from the album ...