Inertia (disambiguation)

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Inertia is the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force. Inertia can also refer to:

Contents 1 Physics/Science 1.1 Philosophy of science 2 Music 3 Fiction

[edit] Physics/Science

• Moment of inertia, also known as Rotational Inertia, is the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform rotation unless acted upon by an external torque. This is the rotational physics equivalent of the inertia in linear physics.
• Inertia as used in automatic control refers to a property of dynamic systems, causing time delays.
• Thermal inertia, a term commonly used by engineers modelling heat transfers when referring to the volumetric heat capacity.
• Social inertia - description of a person's resistance to change in psychology and sociology.
• The tendency of an economy to continue moving in a fixed direction until a sufficient force acts to change that direction.
• One of the possible causes of Diseconomy of scale
• Inertia of a matrix is defined as the number of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues
• Sleep inertia - a psychological state.
• Inertia - aspect of ecological stability

[edit] Philosophy of science

• The tendency of scientific research programmes to ban or ignore new disturbing findings as described by Imre Lakatos and Sören Halldén.

[edit] Music

• Inertia (Scottish band), a Scottish alternative rock band.
• Inertia (British band), a progressive/Psychedelic metal band from Newhaven, UK.
• Inertia (English band), a rock band from Berkshire, UK
• Inertia (The Exies album), an album by The Exies
• Inertia (Derek Sherinian album), an album by Derek Sherinian
• Inertia, Skunkworks (album), a song from Bruce Dickinson
• Inertia Creeps, a song by Massive Attack from their 1998 album, Mezzanine
• Inertia Distribution, a record label

[edit] Fiction

• Inertia (Marvel Comics), a fictional hero.
• Inertia (DC Comics), A fictional antagonist.