{"id":8204,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/inertia\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:10","slug":"inertia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/inertia\/","title":{"rendered":"Inertia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Newton&#8217;s first law of motion, the tendency of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allwords.com\/word-rigid+body.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.allwords.com\/word-rigid+body.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rigid body<\/a> to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless affected by an external force.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"center_of_gravity\">Center of gravity<\/a>, <a href=\"center_of_mass\">Center of mass<\/a>, Centrifugal\/centripetal, <a href=\"dynamics\">Dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"gravitational_field\">Gravitational field<\/a>, <a href=\"mass\">Mass<\/a>, <a href=\"moment_of_inertia_-i-\">Moment of inertia (I)<\/a>, <a href=\"newton-s_laws_of_motion\">Newton&#8217;s laws of motion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Newton&#8217;s first law of motion, the tendency of a rigid body to preserve its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless affected by an external force.&nbsp; See Center of gravity, Center of mass, Centrifugal\/centripetal, Dynamics, Gravitational field, Mass, Moment of inertia (I), Newton&#8217;s laws of motion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}