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   George Hrabovsky to Luigi Fortunati   
   Re: Is inertia a vector?   
   26 Oct 23 16:12:16   
   
   From: gehrab@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 6:01:34=E2=80=AFAM UTC-5, Luigi Fortunati   
   wrote:   
   > Richard Livingston il 24/10/2023 18:21:13 ha scritto:   
      
   > Yes, that's right, inertia is that property of bodies that makes them   
   > go straight at uniform speed.   
      
   No, inertia is the ability of a body to resist being accelerated. Its   
   quantity is what we think of as inertial mass. It is a scalar.   
      
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