Normally, a plane moves along three rotational axes. “Inertia coupling” takes place when the plane inadvertently moves on two ...

One concern some observers raise about the growth of inverter-based resources, such as solar, wind, and battery storage, supplying the power grid is that they don’t provide inertia. Inertia has ...

Some carefully selected analogies might make the reasons for this clearer. Is it easier or harder to control the speed of a motor cycle or a heavily loaded truck? Most people would correctly surmise ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- You may have heard the scientific expression "An object at rest stays at rest." This is the first part of Newton's first law of motion. The whole expression states that an object ...

The concept of inertia is far more than a simple scientific principle; its roots and philosophical underpinnings have deep historical significance, stretching from ancient language to modern metaphors ...

I always enjoy MythBusters. Great material for blogs. Also, one of the things I like is that Adam and Jamie are not professional scientists. This means that if they make some mistakes, that is just ...