Question

Name the property of material bodies by virtue of which they resist any changes in their state of rest or of uniform motion

Answer 1

INERTIA is the property by virtue of which a body offers resistance to any change of its state of rest or motion.

A body at rest stays at rest and a body in motion stays in motion due to its inertia, unless and until an external force acts on it.

Answer 2

Inertia is the property by virtue of which the material bodies resist any changes in their state of rest or uniform motion.

• Inertia is a property that actually opposes extra forces applied on the body when the body is at rest or in uniform motion.
• Inertia has two numerical measurements which help in opposing the extra force applied. They are Mass and Moment of inertia.
• The mass helps in resisting the force and the moment inertia helps in measuring the action of resistance in its same axis.