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gravity is the product of inertia right?

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  • 9 years ago
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    indirectly.

    Inertia is a property of mass, and mass is what causes gravity.

  • 9 years ago

    No, Inertia is the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force. The force you feel when an object is caused to change its state of being is called centrifugal force or if an object is caused to maintain a curved path it's called centripetal force. Either way, it can be considered "artificial gravity", but it is not really gravity.

    Gravity is the force that attracts objects to one another, and is what keeps the planets in orbit around the sun, and the moon in orbit around the earth. It is caused by a disruption of the space-time continuum and its strength is a product of the mass of the object. So, in a word, NO. Gravity is NOT the product of inertia.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    In General Relativity gravity is a set phenomena that manifests the relationship between mass and space-time. It can be summarized in the phrase "Masses tell space-time how to curve and space-time tells the masses how to move."

    Inertia is a rather ambiguous term which can be used for mass, momentum or referring to a space-time frame of reference. I assume you are talking about inertial mass, or just mass due the Principle of Equivalence.

  • Paul
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    No. Gravity is the product of mass times mass, the force of attraction between two masses, it is also inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the masses. The number (mathematical constant) that allows us to calculate the force is called G or Newton's gravitational constant which is 6.67×10^-11 N m^2/kg^2 (newton square meters per kilogram squared)

    Thus the force of gravity is equal to (G M1 M2)/r^2

    where M1 and M2 are the two masses respectively, and r is the distance from centre of mass to centre of mass between the two masses. If the two masses are measured in kilograms and the distance in metres the force will come out in Newtons.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Uniontera number 2, hope it helps. (about Gravity)

    Uniontera number 6-1, hope it helps. (about Inertia)

    Existence is the time expressed by light itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjmOw1Pnc4s

    Source(s): uniontera poem _ type A
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    no, inertia would move an object away from the center of the spinning mass..

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