Question

1. a bowling ball has a mass of 6.5 kg, and a golf ball has a mass of 0.05 kg.

which object has a greater tendency to resist a change in motion? explain your evidence and reasoning.

Explanation:

According to Newton's first law of motion (the law of inertia), an object's inertia (its tendency to resist a change in motion) is directly related to its mass. The greater the mass of an object, the greater its inertia. The bowling ball has a mass of \(6.5\space kg\), while the golf ball has a mass of \(0.05\space kg\). Since \(6.5> 0.05\), the bowling ball has a greater mass.

Answer:

The bowling ball has a greater tendency to resist a change in motion. Because according to the law of inertia (Newton's first law), mass is a measure of inertia. The bowling ball (\(6.5\space kg\)) has a larger mass than the golf ball (\(0.05\space kg\)), so it has greater inertia (greater tendency to resist changes in motion).