Inertia (disambiguation)

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Inertia means resistance to change. It is used in different ways in many different disciplines, some of which are listed below:

Physics/science

In physics inertia means the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force.
Mass moment of inertia is the property of a rigid body that determines its resistance to angular acceleration about an axis of rotation
Area moment of inertia is a geometrical property of a body that determines its resistance to bending
Thermal inertia is the resistance of an object or body to temperature change in response to heat input
In automatic control, inertia refers to a property of dynamic systems causing time delays
Inertia in autism and anxiety; difficulty with starting, stopping, or changing tasks.
Social inertia, description of a person's resistance to change in psychology and sociology
Psychical inertia
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
An aspect of ecological stability called inertia
The tendency of scientific research programmes to ban or ignore new disturbing findings as described by Imre Lakatos and Sören Halldén

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