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PRONUNCIATION OF INERTIAL MASS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INERTIAL MASS

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Inertial mass is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INERTIAL MASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

inertial mass

Mass

In physics, mass (from Greek μᾶζα (maza), meaning "barley cake, lump ") is a property of a physical body which determines the body's resistance to being accelerated by a force and the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction with other bodies. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). As mass is difficult to measure directly, usually balances or scales are used to measure the weight of an object, and the weight is used to calculate the object's mass. For everyday objects and energies well-described by Newtonian physics, mass describes the amount of matter in an object. However, at very high speeds or for subatomic particles, special relativity shows that energy is an additional source of mass. Thus, any stationary body having mass has an equivalent amount of energy, and all forms of energy resist acceleration by a force and have gravitational attraction. There are several distinct phenomena which can be used to measure mass.

Definition of inertial mass in the English dictionary

The definition of inertial mass in the dictionary is the mass of a body as determined by its momentum, as opposed to gravitational mass. The acceleration of a falling body is inversely proportional to its inertial mass but directly proportional to its gravitational mass: as all falling bodies have the same constant acceleration the two types of mass must be equal.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE INERTIAL MASS

air mass
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atomic mass
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gravitational mass
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Synonyms and antonyms of inertial mass in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «inertial mass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INERTIAL MASS

Find out the translation of inertial mass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inertial mass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inertial mass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

惯性质量
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

masa inercial
570 millions of speakers

English

inertial mass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जड़त्वीय द्रव्यमान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كتلة القصور الذاتي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

инертная масса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

massa inercial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিষ্ক্রিয় ভর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

masse inertielle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jisim inersia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

träge Masse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

慣性質量
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

관성 질량
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Massa inertial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khối lượng quán tính
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உறுதியற்ற வெகுஜன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जड वस्तुमान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Atalet kütlesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

massa inerziale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

masa bezwładna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інертна маса
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

masa inerțială
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αδρανειακή μάζα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

traagheidsmassa
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tröghetsmassan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

treghet masse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inertial mass

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INERTIAL MASS»

The term «inertial mass» is normally little used and occupies the 121.723 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inertial mass

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INERTIAL MASS»

Discover the use of inertial mass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inertial mass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Introductory Special Relativity
Appendi.x C : The Principle of Equivalence 247 C.2 EQUIVALENCE OF GRAVITATIONAL MASS AND INERTIAL MASS The gravitational muss of a body is the mass (hat appears in Newton's law of universal gravitation, which is equation (1.9).
W G V Rosser, 1992
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Textbook of Dr. Vodder's Manual Lymph Drainage
In order to understand MLD, the term inertial mass must be explained. Honey for example, is an inertial mass. If a coin is dropped into honey it takes a time to disappear into this inertial mass. A broken-down car is an inertial mass. What can we ...
Hildegard Wittlinger, 2004
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Contemporary Physics and the Limits of Knowledge
Thus the acceleration of an object acted on by thE earth's gravity at Earth's surface involves the ratio of the object's gravitational mass and inertial mass, which one would expect to be different for different objects. One would therefore expect ...
Morton Tavel, 2002
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Trans-Dimensional Unified Field Theory
0.38 of6.79 = 2.6, which when added back to the total mass, is close to the gravitational constant at 6.7 without using G. In conclusion, if you do not consider inertial mass, G needs to be used; ifyou are using inertial mass, it comes down to  ...
George James Ducas, 2011
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Introduction to the Theory of Relativity
In this connection, we may call the mass of a body its "inertial mass," because it is a measure of its "inertial resistance to acceleration." The electrostatic force acting on a particle is the product of the electric field strength, which is independent of ...
Peter Gabriel Bergmann, 1976
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Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy of Measure and the ...
The scientific and practical question is, as Einstein had said of one of the bases for his theory of general relativity (in his words), something that had gone unnoticed for three hundred years*1 — namely, the fact that "inertial-mass" of a body (i.e. ...
Charles B. Crowley, Peter A. Redpath, 1996
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Quantum Mechanics from General Relativity: An Approximation ...
On the Origin of Inertial Mass A central problem in the conventional elementary particle theory that is based on the formal structure of quantum mechanics, and in Einstein's original theory of gravitation, has to do with the origin of the inertial ...
M. Sachs, 1986
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General Relativity and Matter: A Spinor Field Theory from ...
Mach's relativistic interpretation of inertial mass had a profound influence on Einstein, who called it the 'Mach principle'. One of the obvious implications of this principle is that a physical system is necessarily closed. That is to say, there is no bit ...
M. Sachs, 1982
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The Cosmic Sphere
There are really two kinds of mass that all material objects possess — inertial mass and gravitational mass. The gravitational mass of an object is the amount of gravitation produced by the object. Gravitation is just the force of gravity upon ...
Kip K. Sewell, 1999
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Gravity from the Ground Up: An Introductory Guide to Gravity ...
>As an object moves faster, its inertial mass increases, so it is harder to accelerate it. This enforces the speed of light as a limiting speed: as the object gets closer to the speed of light, its mass increases without bound. [> Einstein's most famous ...
Bernard Schutz, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INERTIAL MASS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inertial mass is used in the context of the following news items.
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The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but …
... force was the same mass that appeared in Newton's second law of motion, F = ma; gravitational mass was the same as the “inertial mass. «Ars Technica, May 15»
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Thinking Straight About Curved Space
He concluded from this (and from the empirical demonstration of the equality of inertial mass – resistance to acceleration or deceleration – and gravitational ... «Philosophy Now, May 15»
3
How turbulent wind abuse wind turbine drivetrains
Of course, turbine designers do not allow this. But the generator does have a significant inertial mass that can momentarily resist transient wind ... «Windpower Engineering, May 15»
4
Angelic Bodies
... a body's resistance to acceleration by a force acting upon it (inertial mass), and its gravitational attraction to other bodies (gravitational mass). «First Things, Mar 15»
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 370: The Kaufmann–Bucherer–Neumann …
One of the most amazing implications of Einstein's relativity is the fact that the inertial mass of an object depends on its velocity. That sounds ... «Universe Today, Mar 15»
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Dropping weights in space to test Einstein's general relativity
If this were to happen, it would violate the mass equivalence principle which posits inertial mass and gravitational mass are absolutely one of ... «ZME Science, Mar 15»
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CO2 turbines could power Mars exploration — maybe
However, inductively pulling off power from a magnet strapped to a rapidly melting rotating inertial mass entails certain unavoidable ... «ExtremeTech, Mar 15»
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Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Chief: US Next Generation Fighters …
... being necessary is that stealth and Mach 2.0+ speed could give a jet time unless Russia or China have 3D inertial mass sensors where they ... «USNI News, Feb 15»
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Gitassara Sutra and insanity of chanting
None who are so full-out bonkers that they will lament with sonorous gravity that “the change in mass…is equal to…the inertial mass….as a ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Feb 15»
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Physics breakthrough stalled by magnetic disorder
Just as the inertial mass of a physical object resists moving the object, the Dirac-mass of an electron resists moving it through a conductor. «Cornell Chronicle, Feb 15»

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