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Newton's Laws
First Law (Law of Inertia)
Explain in 1 sentence why The tendency of an object to remain at rest or to remain in motion is called interia and not momentum
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The term inertia is used to describe this tendency because it specifically refers to an object's resistance to changes in its state of rest or motion, whereas momentum refers to the object's quantity of motion.
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