Inertia (disambiguation)
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Inertia is the resistance of a physical object to change in its velocity.
Inertia may also refer to:
Science and engineering
[edit]- Moment of inertia, the resistance to angular acceleration
- In mechanical engineering, simply "inertia" is often used to refer to "inertial mass" or "moment of inertia"
- Second moment of area, a geometrical property of a body that determines its resistance to bending
- Thermal inertia or effusivity, the resistance of an object or body to temperature change in response to heat input
- Sylvester's law of inertia, a theorem in matrix algebra
- Sleep inertia, a psychological state
- Climate inertia, a slowness of the Earth system to changes in significant factors such as greenhouse gas levels
- Ecological inertia, the ability of a living system to resist external fluctuations
Social science
[edit]- Cognitive inertia, resistance to change in an individual's beliefs
- Psychological inertia, a tendency to favor omission over commission due to a lack of incentive to act
- Psychical inertia, a term introduced by Carl Jung
- Social inertia, description of a person's resistance to change in psychology and sociology
- Corporate inertia or unwillingness to change, a diseconomy of scale in microeconomics
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Inertia (film), a 2001 Canadian drama
- Inertia (Marvel Comics), a fictional hero
- Inertia (DC Comics), a fictional antagonist
- "Inertia" (short story), a story by Nancy Kress
Music
[edit]- Inertia, an Irish DJ duo, the pairing of John O'Callaghan and Neal Scarborough
- Inertia (The Exies album), an album by The Exies
- Inertia (Derek Sherinian album), an album by Derek Sherinian
- "Inertia" (song), by AJR from the album The Maybe Man
- "Inertia", a song by Blur from the album Leisure
- "Inertia", a song by Bruce Dickinson from the album Skunkworks
- "Inertia", a song by In Hearts Wake from the album Divination
- "Inertia", a song by Insomnium from the album One for Sorrow
- "Inertia", a song by The Wonder Stuff from the album Never Loved Elvis
- "Inertia", a song by 20syl