A student collects data during an investigation about inertia and acceleration.

Question

If the force acting on the objects is constant, which statement about inertia and acceleration is supported by the data?

(1 point)
Responses

An object with a higher mass has less inertia which causes it to speed up more quickly.
An object with a higher mass has less inertia which causes it to speed up more quickly.

An object with less mass has more inertia which causes it to speed up more quickly.
An object with less mass has more inertia which causes it to speed up more quickly.

An object with a higher mass has more inertia which causes it to speed up less quickly.
An object with a higher mass has more inertia which causes it to speed up less quickly.

An object with less mass has less inertia which causes it to speed up less quickly.
An object with less mass has less inertia which causes it to speed up less quickly.

Answer 1

The correct statement supported by the data, given that the force acting on the objects is constant, is:

An object with a higher mass has more inertia which causes it to speed up less quickly.

This is because inertia is the tendency of an object to resist changes to its state of motion, and more massive objects have greater inertia, meaning they require more force to achieve the same acceleration as lighter objects. Therefore, with a constant force, a more massive object will have less acceleration than a less massive one.