From: gehrab@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 1:02:17 PM UTC-5, Luigi Fortunati wrote:   
   > George Hrabovsky il 26/10/2023 11:12:16 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.   
   > If inertia is the ability of bodies to resist acceleration (which is a   
   > vector), then it cannot be a scalar!   
   This is wrong. If you multiply a vector by the scalar 1/2, then each component   
   is half of what it was; you have resisted the vector by using a scalar.   
      
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