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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. Moment of inertia - Wikipedia

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    The moment of inertia of a rigid composite system is the sum of the moments of inertia of its component subsystems (all taken about the same axis). Its simplest definition is the second moment of mass with respect to distance from an axis.

  4. Moment (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the moments of a function are certain quantitative measures related to the shape of the function's graph.If the function represents mass density, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment (normalized by total mass) is the center of mass, and the second moment is the moment of inertia.

  5. Second moment of area - Wikipedia

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    In physics, moment of inertia is strictly the second moment of mass with respect to distance from an axis: =, where r is the distance to some potential rotation axis, and the integral is over all the infinitesimal elements of mass, dm, in a three-dimensional space occupied by an object Q. The MOI, in this sense, is the analog of mass for ...

  6. Inertial frame of reference - Wikipedia

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    In classical physics and special relativity, an inertial frame of reference (also called an inertial space or a Galilean reference frame) is a frame of reference in which objects exhibit inertia: they remain at rest or in uniform motion relative to the frame until acted upon by external forces.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Mass - Wikipedia

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    Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. [1] The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg).

  9. Second polar moment of area - Wikipedia

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    The second polar moment of area, also known (incorrectly, colloquially) as "polar moment of inertia" or even "moment of inertia", is a quantity used to describe resistance to torsional deformation (), in objects (or segments of an object) with an invariant cross-section and no significant warping or out-of-plane deformation. [1]