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Newton’s First Law of Motion
By Hunter Boatright
What it Means
• States that an object at rest remains at rest
and an object in motion maintains its velocity
unless it experiences an unbalanced force
Examples
• A good example is seatbelts. Seatbelts in a car
stop you from flying out of the windshield
when you’re in a accident. The car comes to a
sudden stop and your body would keep
moving if it wasn’t for seatbelts.
Inertia
• Inertia is something else that describes
Newton’s First Law. Inertia is the tendency of
an object to resist a change in speed or
direction until an outside force acts on the
object. Inertia is also related to an object’s
mass
Facts
• Newton’s First Law is described in one
sentence; matter resists anything that is in
motion. It is also called the Law of Inertia.
Mass is the measure of inertia. A smaller
object has less inertia. The bigger the object
the more force is required to move it. The
smaller the object the less force is required to
move it. Objects tend to maintain their state
of motion