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The concept of inertia, which originated with Galileo, found a mathematical expression in Newton’s laws of motion. According to the second law of motion, the force acting on a particle is proportional to the acceleration of the particle. The constant of proportionality measures the inertia of the particle and is called its inertial mass.
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Narlikar, J.V. (1999). Mach’s Principle in Electrodynamics and Inertia. In: Iyer, B.R., Bhawal, B. (eds) Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation and the Universe. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0934-7_30
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