Inertia

In psychology, social inertia describes a person's resistance to change.

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Psychology - Social inertia

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In economics, inertia has two meanings, the tendency of an economy to continue moving in a fixed direction until a sufficient force acts to change that direction, and the "unwillingness to change" at a large firm which may contribute to a diseconomy of scale.

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Economics - Diseconomy of scale

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In physics, inertia is a physical property of matter, namely, a resistance to change in

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Physics - Matter

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motion, and it is related to the

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mass of an object.

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Specifically, in physics, it is the tendency of a body to maintain its state of uniform motion unless acted on by an external unbalanced force. (This is called Newton's first law of motion, taken from Galileo's principle.)

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Physics - Force - First law - Motion

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