From:	Christopher Bellovary <bellovar@***.WISC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Gravity
Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 1993 17:52:20 CDT

> Yo Cross Fire,
>
> I thought that Inertia was the propety of a body once in motion
> to stay in motion, that unless acted on by an outside force it
> will stay in motion. That this property was independent of gravity
> not dependent. In fact if I remember right it depends on mass of
> the object in question. Hell, it is what enables something to leave
> the solar system after acciving escape velocity, by coasting along
> on it's stored up velocity. Look in you physics 101 book to confirm
> this.
>
> Speedbump


Ok, science lesson 101 folks...

gravity is a force of acceleration....
acceleration imparts a change in velocity to a unit mass...
the variables involved in inertia are velocity and mass...

one cannot have the effects of gravity without inertia as
gravity means anything that is up will come down unless
held up there by another force. As it comes down, gravity
imparts upon it a force of inertia.

And remember, gravity is indeed an outside force.
The definition that you gave itself states that inertia is
dependent upon gravity.

Please think the subject through next time before
telling me to go back to basic physics. I think I have a
good grasp on what inertia and gravity are, and how they are
interelated.

=- CrossFire -