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inertia can best be described as ______. the tendency of any object to resist change and keep doing whatever its doing the willingness of an object to eventually lose its motion the force which keeps moving objects moving and stationary objects at rest the force which causes all objects to stop
According to Newton's first law of motion, inertia is the property of an object that causes it to resist changes in its state of motion. An object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This means it's about resisting change in its current state (whether moving or at rest).
The second option about losing motion is incorrect as inertia is about maintaining the current state, not losing it. The third option is wrong because inertia is not a force. The fourth option is also wrong as it's not a force that causes objects to stop.
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the tendency of any object to resist change and keep doing whatever its doing