Can you please answer this by typing a few, fun, everday examples of inertia!
2007-01-21 06:21:57 · 11 answers · asked by smoothieblender 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
a car that is moving will keep moving after you shut off the engine, unless you hit the brake pedal or friction from the road or air friction and gravity slows it or it hits a tree or the post office building.
a snowball that is thown will keep moving until either gravity or air friction brings it down or it hits a tree or a person or another object.
2007-01-21 06:31:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Inertia is a property of a material body to maintain its state of rest or of uniform motion along a straight line when there no resultant force acting on it.
1) If you are riding a running horse and it suddenly stops, the upper part of your body moves forward due to inertia.
2) I f you are riding a horse which is at rest and it suddenly starts running, you fall backward.
3) That interesting experiment: take an empty glass, cover it with a piece of card board whose upper surface is very smooth. Put a coin at rest on it. Now move the cardboard away by giving it a jerk with a finger. What happens to the coin? It falls in the glass and does not go away with the card board. It was at rest before the jerk and tries to remain at rest after the jerk.
4) you are holding one end of a rope which has a stone at the other end and you are moving the stone in a circle. Suppose at a certain instant, the rope breaks, What happens to the stone? It continues to move along the tangent to the circle because that was the direction of its motion at the instant when the rope broke. So the stone tries to maintain the direction of its motion.
2007-01-21 06:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my understanding of inertia is a body in motion tends to stay in motion and a body at rest tends to stay at rest. An example would be, like when you're riding in a car and come to an abrupt stop, you tend to jerk some distance forward, that's inertia.
2016-03-29 07:43:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the inertia of an 18 wheeled semi
when a small car pulls in front of it and thinks the truck can stop as quickly as it did
a 100 car, fully loaded, train moving at 50 miles per hour - takes several miles to come to a full and complete stop
2007-01-21 06:28:42 · answer #4 · answered by tomkat1528 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Inertia can be explained by watching a train .the train starts off slow but as it starts to speed up the trains enormous weight actually helps push the train much as pushing a wheel borrow thats full. energy begats energy
2007-01-21 06:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by superjoezzz@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're in a car, and some bastard in front of you comes out in front of nowhere, and you step on the brakes. The car stops moving, but you don't. You move forward until an unbalenced force acts on you.
2007-01-21 07:31:16 · answer #6 · answered by ZZ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about a baseball in motion or a car moving in any direction?
2007-01-21 06:25:47 · answer #7 · answered by soar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when youre trying and you suddenly hit the brakes but you still keep on moving
2007-01-21 06:24:52 · answer #8 · answered by tanj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newtons law
staying at rest, etc
and my life
2007-01-21 06:26:30 · answer #9 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you ride a car fast and suddenly stop,
2007-01-21 07:04:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋