Answer:If an object's speed changes, or if it changes the direction it's moving in,
then there must be forces acting on it. There is no other way for any of
these things to happen.
Once in a while, there may be a group of forces (two or more) acting on
an object, and the group of forces may turn out to be "balanced". When
that happens, the object's speed will remain constant, and ... if the speed
is not zero ... it will continue moving in a straight line. In that case, it's not
possible to tell by looking at it whether there are any forces acting on it
Answer:
An object responds to a force by tending to move in the direction of that force
Explanation:
The inertia of a body can be defined with the help of Newton's second law
F = m a
Where F is the applied force, a is the acceleration of the body and m is the mass
the force and the acceleration are vectors that point in the same direction and m is a scalar constant that relates the two vectors, this scalar constant is called masses and it measures the resistance of the bodies to the change of motion.
From the previous statement we see that the statement that best describes inertia is:
An object responds to force by tending to move in the direction of the force.
<span>C. Mao Zedong
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