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The Inertia of an Object Tends to Cause the Object

Answer: The inertia of an object tends to cause the object to resist any change in its state of rest or motion.

Explanation: 

  1. Inertia is a physical property of a body. It resists any change in its state, whether it is stationary or it is moving. 
  2. The law of inertia or Newton’s first law was to give information about the state of the object. 
  3. It states that an object at rest tends to be at rest or an object in motion tends to be in motion unless otherwise acted by any external force. 
  4. The inertia of an object directly depends on its mass. 
  5. Hence, it resists any change in its state of rest or of motion. 
  6. Inertia is of three types: the inertia of rest, the inertia of motion, and the inertia of direction.