what is the relation between inertia and mass?
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inertia is directly proportional to mass.
more the mass a body has more its inertia is.
less the mass a body has less its inertia is.
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Weight and inertia are proportional to each other with the constant of proportionality being the strength of the local gravitational field or, equivalently, the absolute value of the acceleration that the frame of reference that the object is being measured in is undergoing.
So, on the surface of the Earth, there is a gravitational field whose absolute value is approximately constant, and is given by g≈9.8ms−2. This means that a mass of 1kg has a weight of approximately 9.8kgms−2=9.8N.
Because of this approximate constancy of g and the fact that almost everyone lives on the surface of the Earth, we often become lazy and talk about something 'weighing nkg', and we have scales which read in kilograms or grams, or pounds or ounces, when in fact what these scales are doing is measuring force, not mass: on the Moon, all these scales would be wrong, because the constant is different there (gmoon≈1.6ms−2).
Inertia and mass, or inertial mass and gravitational mass, are always (we think) the same, and this is very important for theories of gravity.
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