Inertia (disambiguation)

Inertia means resistance to change. It is used in different ways in many different disciplines, some of which are listed below:

Physics/Science

• In Physics inertia means the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force.
• Mass moment of inertia is the property of a rigid body that determines its resistance to angular acceleration about an axis of rotation
• Area moment of inertia is a geometrical property of a body that determines its resistance to bending
• Thermal inertia is the resistance of an object or body to temperature change in response to heat input
• In automatic control, inertia refers to a property of dynamic systems causing time delays
• Social inertia, description of a person's resistance to change in psychology and sociology
• One of the possible causes of Diseconomy of scale
• Inertia of a matrix is defined as the number of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues
• Sleep inertia, a psychological state
• An aspect of ecological stability called Inertia
• The tendency of scientific research programmes to ban or ignore new disturbing findings as described by Imre Lakatos and Sören Halldén

Music

• Inertia, an Irish DJ duo, the pairing of John O'Callaghan and Neal Scarborough
• Inertia (The Exies album), an album by The Exies
• Inertia (Derek Sherinian album), an album by Derek Sherinian
• "Inertia", a song by Bruce Dickinson from the album Skunkworks
• Inertia (record company), an Australian record label and distributor
• "Inertia", a song by The Wonder Stuff from the album Never Loved Elvis

Fiction

• Inertia (2001 film)
• Inertia (Marvel Comics), a fictional hero
• Inertia (DC Comics), a fictional antagonist
• Inertia (short story), a story by Nancy Kress