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...e related like this, suggesting that a high-inertia, low-gravity (or a low-inertia, high-gravity object) should be possible. ...: Gravitational mass is identical to inertial mass. That is, the amount of inertia something has and the amount of gravity it has are effectively the same. Wh

...pull Nathan from the board seemingly without effort (or accounting for his inertia) it may suggest she is something more akin to her biomechanical Terminator-

...ng friction). The net downward force is 9 % of his weight, while the total inertia is 191 % of his body mass. So a fall from 21 meters (63 ft) will feel like

...ery small and would not be able to halt an average human being through its inertia, but it could tangle up in their feet or otherwise trip them up, and it wou

...but includes no mandates for enforcement, meaning that social and economic inertia keeps customary units in general use. Though the US now uses SI units in ma

...ce could be made of hard vacuum and celestial bodies held there by laws of inertia and gravity and vast distances. The spheres are nested inside each other c

In addition to dealing with with the inertia of our assumptions and stereotype, this comic also continues a long XKCD tr

...al and US customary measurements, and recognizes that the forces of social inertia in US society make change difficult.

...ter of gravity when picking up the carton. It also minimizes the moment of inertia, making it easy to rotate the carton to change its orientation. The pattern ...the number of eggs is even; but the carton has a relatively high moment of inertia. It is neither centralized nor random; Randall interprets this as “Neutra

...its natural rotation rate is greatly amplified by its shrinking moment of inertia. ...gular velocity must increase in order to offset the decrease in rotational inertia, i.e. the star (which is now a pulsar) spins faster. This is demonstrated [

...ng external frame that can be held or moved around by hand. The rotational inertia of the spinning disc resists change in orientation, and tends to remain in

...aps showing an effective difference between mass of attraction and mass of inertia).

...the angular velocity of rotation '''ω''' multiplied by the {{w|moment of inertia}} '''I'''. (The comic's diagram is drawn according to very uncommon {{w|Rig

...ally becoming more difficult to find. There's typically a certain level of inertia in the adoption of any new technology.

...wheels, driven either by human power or a motor, which creates rotational inertia and allows the rider to balance simply by leaning forward.

...powered, being initially lifted by a chain and then running on gravity and inertia. Roller coasters aren't built for the kind of weight or size typical to tra

...tool that has both considerable {{w|mass}} and considerable {{w|moment of inertia}} on a tiny object a stilt-length away. It is no wonder that instead the pe

...ually be more at risk in collisions, since the body construction and lower inertia generally provide less protection. So, for safety reasons, people have an i

...ing the third great unification, Einstein's fourth paper, titled "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", produced the fourth great unifi

...r direction, as it will take a few seconds for the balloon to overcome its inertia. If the wind drops the balloon may coast a bit at the higher speed, but a l