Shouldn't It Be Inertia?
Myrmidonisia
11-03-2005, 15:43
"Kerry Fortifies War Chest, Keeps Momentum for 2008"--headline, Boston Herald, March 9
Okay, maybe only physicists would find that funny.
Whispering Legs
11-03-2005, 15:52
"Kerry Fortifies War Chest, Keeps Momentum for 2008"--headline, Boston Herald, March 9
Okay, maybe only physicists would find that funny.
Too many non-physicists would think that "inertia" means "inert".
How does the headline imply rotation?
(sorry if I'm wrong -- first year Physics student with a shit teacher)
Myrmidonisia
11-03-2005, 16:29
How does the headline imply rotation?
(sorry if I'm wrong -- first year Physics student with a shit teacher)
Inertia is a property of matter. Momemtum is a vector quantity. Kerry is going nowhere fast, so describing his campaign as having momentum is funny. Not ROFL funny but MTCOMMTU funny. That's "Made The Corners of My Mouth Turn Up" for the uninitiated.
UpwardThrust
11-03-2005, 16:29
"Kerry Fortifies War Chest, Keeps Momentum for 2008"--headline, Boston Herald, March 9
Okay, maybe only physicists would find that funny.
Momentum
1. Symbol p Physics. A measure of the motion of a body equal to the product of its mass and velocity. Also called linear momentum.
2.
1. Impetus of a physical object in motion.
2. Impetus of a nonphysical process, such as an idea or a course of events: The soaring rise in interest rates finally appeared to be losing momentum.
3. Philosophy. An essential or constituent element; a moment.
intertia
in·er·tia Audio pronunciation of "inertia" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-nûrsh)
n.
1. Physics. The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force.
2. Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change: the inertia of an entrenched bureaucracy.
Momentum seems to fit as well if not better
Myrmidonisia
11-03-2005, 16:41
Momentum
intertia
Momentum seems to fit as well if not better
No, momentum and inertial are not interchangeable. Inertia doesn't depend on motion. It is a property. Where did your defs come from?
In fact, you quoted the same thing twice.
Drunk commies
11-03-2005, 16:49
Momentum
intertia
Momentum seems to fit as well if not better
No, Kerry hasn't gone anywhere with his presidential bid. It's inertia. Inertial is when an object at rest requires a certain ammount of force to start moving. Once it's moving any little force can continue to accellerate it. Providing that nothing is working to slow it down like wind resistance or gravity. Kerry has inertia, not momentum.
Myrmidonisia
11-03-2005, 16:55
No, Kerry hasn't gone anywhere with his presidential bid. It's inertia. Inertial is when an object at rest requires a certain ammount of force to start moving. Once it's moving any little force can continue to accellerate it. Providing that nothing is working to slow it down like wind resistance or gravity. Kerry has inertia, not momentum.
Physics really does describe the way the world works. Isn't that wonderful? Or is that Psychics. There goes that dislexia again.
UpwardThrust
11-03-2005, 17:05
No, momentum and inertial are not interchangeable. Inertia doesn't depend on motion. It is a property. Where did your defs come from?
In fact, you quoted the same thing twice.
Sorry copy paste error ... fixed
UpwardThrust
11-03-2005, 17:08
No, Kerry hasn't gone anywhere with his presidential bid. It's inertia. Inertial is when an object at rest requires a certain ammount of force to start moving. Once it's moving any little force can continue to accellerate it. Providing that nothing is working to slow it down like wind resistance or gravity. Kerry has inertia, not momentum.
Not nessisarily he still has human sentimant inertia ... people are till "behind him" and probably more then he had before the initial announcement of his candacy
Just because he did not win the race does not mean he is stationary
(Btw inertia can be more accuraltly described as the resistance to change in velocity ... including rest to motion ... or varing speeds ... it is a property of mass)
Myrmidonisia
11-03-2005, 17:12
Not nessisarily he still has human sentimant inertia ... people are till "behind him" and probably more then he had before the initial announcement of his candacy
Just because he did not win the race does not mean he is stationary
(Btw inertia can be more accuraltly described as the resistance to change in velocity ... including rest to motion ... or varing speeds ... it is a property of mass)
Okay. Enough. This was a joke. Just a play on words, not a political analysis.
Anarchic Conceptions
11-03-2005, 17:31
"Kerry Fortifies War Chest, Keeps Momentum for 2008"--headline, Boston Herald, March 9
Is he on Roves payroll or something?
Okay, maybe only physicists would find that funny.
The first thing my physics A-level has come in useful for. I can now die knowing I didn't wasye two years of my life :D