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Consider two rocks with masses of 1 and ten kilograms. What is the relation between their inertia’s? Between their masses? Between their weights on earth?

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Intertia is the tendency for an object to resist changes in motion. The larger the mass, the greater the tendency for an object to remain at rest. The larger the mass, the larger the weight on Earth since Weight = mass × Acceleration due to Gravity.
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