SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

PHYSICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What physicist developed the idea of inertia?
A
Galileo
B
Newton
C
Coach Waugh
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the seventeenth century, Galileo Galilei and his students proposed the concept of Inertia. Later, the concept of inertia was modified by Isaac Newton which he stated in his laws of motion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Newton’s First Law: Inertia Newton’s first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. This tendency to resist changes in a state of motion is inertia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Newtonian Physics : The publication, in 1687, of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by English scientist Sir Issac Newton was the culmination of a reduction philosophy of science that used force and action to explain the fundamentals of motion/energy, time and space/position.

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