Answer: The inertia of an object tends to cause the object to resist any change in its state of rest or motion.
Explanation:
- Inertia is a physical property of a body. It resists any change in its state, whether it is stationary or it is moving.
- The law of inertia or Newton’s first law was to give information about the state of the object.
- 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.
- The inertia of an object directly depends on its mass.
- Hence, it resists any change in its state of rest or of motion.
- Inertia is of three types: the inertia of rest, the inertia of motion, and the inertia of direction.