Law of

Inertia
Early understanding of motion
Prior to the Renaissance, the most
generally accepted theory of motion in
Western philosophy was based on
Aristotle (around 335 BC to 322 BC) who
said that, in the absence of an external
motive power, all objects (on Earth)
would come to rest and that moving
objects only continue to move so long as
there is a power inducing them to do so.


comes from the Latin word,
iners, meaning idle, sluggish.
Inertia is one of the primary
manifestations of mass, which
is a quantitative property of
physical systems.

Whos this scientist?
Aristotle
Aristotle, and his peripatetic
followers, held that a body was only
maintained in motion by the action of
a continuous external force. Thus, in
the Aristotelian view, a projectile
moving through the air would owe its
continuing motion to eddies or
vibrations in the surrounding
medium, a phenomenon known as
antiperistasis.
Whos this scientist?
Galileo Galilei

Galileo writes that all external
impediments removed, a heavy body
on a spherical surface concentric with
the earth will maintain itself in that
state in which it has been; if placed in
movement towards the west , it will
maintain itself in that movement. This
notion which is termed circular
inertia or horizontal circular inertia
by historians of science, is a precursor
to, but distinct from, Newtons notion
of rectilinear inertia
Whos this scientist?
Albert Einstein
Einstein drew on Mach's
principle in his original
development of special
relativity but then abandoned
it as unnecessary. Later,
Einstein fiercely re-asserted
the equivalence of all inertial
frames and showed that, once
combined with the principle
of the constancy of the speed
of light, it led to satisfactory
explanations of many
surprising physical
phenomena.
Whos this scientist?
Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton first presented his
three laws of motion in the "Principia
Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis" in
1686. His first law states that every object
remains at rest or in uniform motion in a
straight line unless compelled to change its
state by the action of an external force. This is
normally taken as the definition of inertia.
EXAMPLES
According to Newton's first law, the marble on that bottom ramp
should just keep going. And going.

According to this, every body preserves its state of rest unless
some external force compels it to change its state of rest.


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Prepared by:
CJ E. Bernal
IV Pasteur