INERTIA

OBJECTIVES
Most Essential Learning Competencies
•Infer that when a body exerts a force on
another, an equal amount of force is exerted back
on it
 MENU
• Definition of inertia
• Relationship between mass inertia and mass.
• Effect of inertia in our daily life
• Quiz
• Reference
INERTIA
Inertia is the property of matter
that causes matter to resist any
change in its motion or state of
rest
How could this HAPPEN???
If the object is moving….

INERTIA makes the moving object

continue to move at a constant
speed in the same direction unless
some external force changes the
object’s motion
If an object is at rest…

It tends to stay in that position

unless some force puts that
object into motion
 Inertia is not a physical quantity and
thus it does not have units
 The property of inertia is found from
the Newton’s first law of motion
 Newton’s First Law of Motion

"An object at rest tends to stay at rest and

an object in motion tends to stay the
same speed and in the same direction
unless acted upon by an unbalanced
force"
 RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN INERTIA AND
MASS
• Constant wherever it is
measured
• Scalar quantity
• The SI unit of mass is
kilogram (kg)
Mass can influence
the effects of
inertia.
An object with a larger
mass has a larger
inertia.

mass inertia
If the motorcycle were to abruptly stop, then the rider
in motion would continue in motion. The rider would
likely be propelled from the motorcycle and be hurled
into the air. Once they leave the motorcycle, the rider
becomes a projectile and continues in projectile-like
motion. It is because of inertia.
 Applications of inertia
Some examples of using inertia in our daily life are :

1. The loose head of a hammer

• To tighten the loose head of a hammer, knock one end of
the handle held vertically, on a hard surface.
• The hammer head will continue on its downward motion
• when the handle has been stopped, the top end of the
handle is slotted deeper into the hammer head.
3. To dislodge sticking chili sauce
• Chili sauce in a bottle is poured out by a quick downward
movement of the bottle followed by a sudden stop.
• The sauce in the bottle moves with the bottle during the
downward movement.
• When bottle is stopped, the inertia of the sauce causes it to
continue on its downward movement and thus the sauce is
forced out of the bottle.
4. Passengers in a bus
• Passenger in a bus will lurch backward when a stationary bus
starts to move with forward acceleration.
• The passenger were originally stationary.
• When the bus started to move forward with an acceleration,
the inertia in the passenger made them maintain their original
position.
QUIZ
Question 1

Question 2
Question 3
 ANSWER

When the cardboard covering the

glass is pulled out quickly, what will
happen to the coin?
 When the cardboard covering the
glass is pulled out quickly, the coin
resting on the cardboard drops into
the glass
 What will happen to the
rest of the coins when one
of the coins is moved out
quickly?

ANSWER
 The inertia of the coins
maintains it in its original
position (at horizontal/rest)
even when one of the
coins is moved out quickly
When a student is riding a
bicycle and runs over a
stone, he is thrown forward.
Why does this happen?

ANSWER
 THE INERTIA OF THE
STUDENT MAINTAINS HIS
FORWARD MOTION SO THAT
HE IS THROWN FORWARD
WHEN HIS BICYCLE IS
MOMENTARILY STOPPED BY
THE STONE
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