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Key Terms:
Inertia
The property of an object that resists changes in its state of rest or motion.
When stationary difficult to push.
Sudden Starts - head rests stop the head from being pushed back. (rapid
positive acceleration)
Sudden Stops - seat belts help your body resist the tendency to keep
moving. (rapid negative acceleration)
It depends on mass.
Less Inertia
More Inertia
By using a pair of inclined planes and a ball (assuming friction was eliminated), Galileo observed
that a ball which rolled down one incline would roll up another incline to the same height at
which it started.
Galileo's basic thought process was...