What causes a thing—be it a planet, a cannonball, a car, or a person—to move in the way that it does? GalileoGalileo took an important step toward answering this question, by proposing that a moving thing tends to keep moving by default. This is the famous “Law of InertiaLaw of inertia”:

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Forces and Motion

  • Michael Anderson

摘要

What causes a thing—be it a planet, a cannonball, a car, or a person—to move in the way that it does? GalileoGalileo took an important step toward answering this question, by proposing that a moving thing tends to keep moving by default. This is the famous “Law of InertiaLaw of inertia”: