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The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.

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In a person, unwillingness to take action.

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Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

The new A, B, C are called the principal moments of inertia at 0.

They both protested against the political and ecclesiastical inertia of their native state, and adopted the doctrines of freedom and reason.

The most important conception in kinetics is that of inertia.

The inertia of the mass of the flying creature enables it to control and direct its movements in the air.

Bill gave COAST lots of advice on how to tackle government & bureaucratic inertia, which we will now use.

Wladislaus was the personification of helpless inertia.

In order that the moments and products of inertia with respect to these axes may be constant, it is in general necessary to suppose them fixed in the solid.

The numerous adjustments required by the tapper and the inertia of the apparatus prompted inventors to seek for a self-restoring coherer which should not need tapping.

But Jerome proved quite inadequate to his position, listening to the complaints of his subordinates as to want of supplies and even of pay; he spent four whole days in absolute inertia, notwithstanding the emperor's reprimands.

If A is the moment of inertia of the magnet, and t the time of a complete vibration, MH = 41r 2 A/t 2 (torsion being neglected).

In particular, when a = oo, the extra inertia is M'.

Similarly, parallel to Oy, the increase of effective inertia is NT'/th n th(n-a), reducing to M'/th n=M' (a/b), when a= oo, and the liquid extends to infinity.

Single needles are never used, two being the least number, and these so arranged that the moment of inertia about every diameter of the card shall be the same.

With the same notation for moments and products of inertia as in II (38), we have and therefore by (1),

Now T = 3/41w1, where w is the angular velocity and I is the moment of inertia about the instantaneous axis.

The product wp/g, by which the half-square of the angular velocity is multiplied, is called the moment of inertia of the revolving body.

The principles according to which variations of angular velocity store and restore energy are the same as those of 117, only substituting moment of inertia for mass, and angular for linear velocity.

Let da be the deviation of angular velocity to be produced in the interval dt, and I the moment of the inertia of the body about an axis through its centre of gravity; then 1/8Id(&) = Iada is the variation of the bodys actual energy.

W and I being respectively the weight and the moment of inertia of the link about the axis through the Centre of gravity.

Its momen4 of inertia about G can be found experimentally by the method explained in 125, and then the value of the couple M can be computed.

Dalby (London, 1906), where the inertia stresses brought upon the several links of a Joy valve gear, belonging to an express passenger engine of the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway, are investigated for an engine-speed of 68 m.

Varley had advanced tentatively the hypothesis that it consisted in an actual projection of electrified matter from the cathode, and Crookes was led by his researches in 1870, 1871 and 1872 to embrace and confirm this hypothesis in a modified form and announce the existence of a fourth state of matter, which he called radiant matter, demonstrating by many beautiful and convincing experiments that there was an actual projection of material substance of some kind possessing inertia from the surface of the cathode.

The final outcome of these investigations was the hypothesis that Thomson's corpuscles or particles composing the cathode discharge in a high vacuum tube must be looked upon as the ultimate constituent of what we call negative electricity; in other words, they are atoms of negative electricity, possessing, however, inertia, and these negative electrons are components at any rate of the chemical atom.

No one has yet been able to isolate positive electrons, or to give a complete demonstration that the whole inertia of matter is only electric inertia due to what may be called the inductance of the electrons.

Atoms of matter are composed of congeries of electrons and the inertia of matter is probably therefore only the inertia of the electromagnetic medium.'

If the centre of gravity of a pulley is on the axis of rotation, and the whole mass is distributed so that the axis of inertia coincides with the axis of rotation, there can be no unbalanced force or unbalanced couple as the pulley revolves.

Ignorance regarding the inertia of matter drove him to this expedient.

Throughout the early 1930s the Labor left constantly tried to overcome the inertia of the trade union leaders.

One way to improve turbo lag is to reduce the inertia of the rotating parts, mainly by reducing their weight.

Make Training Evaluation Work is a book designed to break through this organizational inertia.

For example, poor thermal inertia could be due to a poorly packed frost layer.

This added weight creates more rotational inertia, which in turn enables the disk to spin with more constant torque.

Lap belt, inertia reel belt or fixed harness with two shoulder straps.

Braking response and feel are outstanding, and a very lightweight, six-spoke cast aluminum wheel reduces unsprung weight and steering inertia.

They had also spent several hours each day practicing the maths test used to quantify sleep inertia.

However the inertia of the coil reduces high frequency response.

There is little that is new, much that is simply repeated and re-hashed, and only sheer inertia has kept me plowing through.

According to our hypothesis, the foreign matter may be supposed to load the aether, so as to increase its inertia without altering its resistance to distortion.

These doctrines of inertia, and of the composite character of curvilinear motion, were scarcely apprehended even by Kepler or Galileo; but they follow naturally from the geometrical analysis of Descartes.

It has a very large starting torque, which enables it to overcome the inertia of getting the load into motion, and it lifts heavy loads at a slower speed and lighter loads at a quicker one, behaving, under the action of the controller in a somewhat similar manner to that in which the cylinders of the steam crane respond to the action of the stop-valve.

Mental operations are identified with physical movements, the three conditions of physical movement, inertia, attraction and repulsion, being in the moral world self-love, love and hate.

The introduction ctf the lamina (supposed to be devoid of inertia) will make no difference to the propagation of plane parallel sonorous waves through the position which it occupies.

If the two materials are disposed symmetrically, the amount of load carried by each would be in direct proportion to the coefficient of elasticity and inversely as the moment of inertia of the cross section.

The observations are difficult, and the inertia of the instrument is liable to cause error, but much care was taken.

When the frame of this arrangement is rapidly displaced through a small horizontal range to the right and left of the direction in which the rod points, the weight b by its inertia tends to remain at rest, and the motion of the frame, which is that of the earth, is magnified in the ration op to bp. This apparatus, of which there are many types, was first introduced into seismometry by Professor Ewing.

If A = B = C, the momental ellipsoid becomes a sphere; all axes through 0 are then principal axes, and the moment of inertia is the same for each.

This gives the acceleration of m as modified by the inertia of the wheel.

The depiction implies passive inertia on the part of the congregation who heard this message, rosaries in hand.

Instead of overcoming a bewailed inertia, Reich 's theories hardly sufficed to sustain a ridiculous private racket.

A desire to gain control over the inertia of life leads hummingbird-lovers to the tattoo parlor.