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What relationship does mass have to inertia?
The relationship of mass with inertia.
Answer to Problem 5RQ
The relationship of mass with inertia is that the mass of an object is a measure of its inertia.
Explanation of Solution
Mass can be described as the quantity, which is used to represent the amount of matter present in a particle. In the standard international system, the mass is measured in the units of kilograms. The term inertia is defined as the property of any object to resist any change occurring with their state of motion when an outside force is exerted on it. Generally, the mass of an object is a measure of the inertia of the object. The object containing higher mass will have high inertia as compared to the objects having lower mass. The relationship between mass and inertia is that the inertia is proportional to the object's mass.
Conclusion:
Therefore, mass of an object is a measure of its inertia.
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