Posted by lisa on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 7:27pm.
You SHOOT a basketball; you don't shoot AT it.
Inertia is another word for mass. It is a measure of the resistance to acceleration. Mass does not depend upon velocity.
The inertia is the same in both cases, since the mass is the same.
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