Sentences with 'inertia'
Example sentences and phrases with the word inertia and other words derived from it.
• « Six years after the book "The Dialogue" was put on the Index of banned books, Galileo published another work, Two New Sciences of Motion and Mechanics, which provided a theory and mathematical formulae of inertia and aspects of gravity. »
• « These theories by Galileo refuted Aristotelian physics, which had claimed that objects are only kept in motion when there is a direct impulse; Galileo demonstrated through experiments the principles of inertia and acceleration and began the task of mathematically defining their workings. »
• « Without having considered the possibility of inertia, Aristotle believed that bodies moved in search of their "natural place": stones - heavy bodies - fell because their "natural place" was the earth, and fire - light bodies - rose because its "natural place" was the air. »