When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687 ... have since interpreted Newton's first law of inertia to mean an object will continue moving in a straight ...

All are familiar with one of the many definitions given in the works on physics, of the term Vis Inertia— a want of power in a body to move itself when at rest or to come to rest when in motion.

Facing the Inquisition for his scientific beliefs, Galileo developed many important ideas about the science of motion, such as inertia. Isaac Newton built on many of Galileo's insights when ...

Have you ever seen someone flick a tablecloth out from under plates that stay in place? The plates stay in place because of a concept called inertia. A ...