Most people probably know the portion of Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion that describes inertia: “objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted upon.” What most people don’t know is that when ...

The word inertia in everyday use suggests resistance to change and anunwillingness to act. This is hardly something we need in engineering practiceto solve the urgent problems we all face. Even in a ...

Derived originally from physics, the concept of inertia refers to the tendency of things to remain as they are—whether they’re in motion or at rest. For change to occur, what's required is a ...