NOUN
- (physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity
How To Use inertial mass In A Sentence
- In fact, the inertial mass of any object exactly equals the gravitational mass of the object.
- In Newton's theory, all three of these masses - the inertial mass, the active and passive gravitational masses - are equivalent.
- The interesting thing is that, physically, no difference has been found between gravitational and inertial mass.
- The rest-mass of a body is the inertial mass of that body when it is at rest relative to an inertial frame.
