Inertia (disambiguation)

Inertia is the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force. Inertia can also refer to:

Physics/Science

• Principle of inertia (physics)
• Moment of inertia, also known as Rotational Inertia, is the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform rotation unless acted upon by an external torque. This is the rotational physics equivalent of the inertia in linear physics.
• Inertia as used in automatic control refers to a property of dynamic systems, causing time delays.
• Thermal inertia, a term commonly used by engineers modelling heat transfers when referring to the volumetric heat capacity
• Social inertia - description of a person's resistance to change in psychology and sociology.
• One of the possible causes of Diseconomy of scale
• Inertia of a matrix is defined as the number of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues
• Sleep inertia - a psychological state
• An aspect of ecological stability called Inertia
• The tendency of scientific research programmes to ban or ignore new disturbing findings as described by Imre Lakatos and Sören Halldén

Music

• Inertia, an Irish DJ duo, the pairing of John O'Callaghan and Neal Scarborough
• Inertia (The Exies album), an album by The Exies
• Inertia (Derek Sherinian album), an album by Derek Sherinian
• "Inertia", a song from Bruce Dickinson on his album Skunkworks
• "Inertia Creeps", a song by Massive Attack from their 1998 album, Mezzanine
• Inertia (Independent Record Company), an Australian record label and distributor
• ""Floreat Inertia", a song by Half Man Half Biscuit from their 1993 album "This Leaden Pall"

Fiction

• Inertia (Marvel Comics), a fictional hero
• Inertia (DC Comics), a fictional antagonist
• Inertia (short story), a fictional short story