What is Intertia and Momentum?

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I didn’t quite understand it in class….

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In casual usage, both of them mean the way things that are moving keep moving.

In physics, momentum is mass times velocity. This is useful because it happens that when things bump into each other, their total momentum stays the same (when you allow opposite directions to cancel out i.e. treat it as a vector). That can be useful for calculating how things will move.

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