Inertia is a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.
Your body will fly off the skateboard, due to the property of inertia, which says that you will continue in an existing state until it is changed, which was caused by the impact.
(:
You are moving fast on a skateboard when your wheel gets stuck in a crack on the sidewalk. Using the term inertia, explain what happens.
1 answer