For a detailed analysis concerning this issue, see Alan Chalmers article "Galilean Relativity and Galileo's Relativity", in Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: Essays in Honour of Heinz Post, eds | Clement, J 1982 , "Students' preconceptions in introductory mechanics", vol 50, pp 66—71• McCloskey, M 1983 , "Intuitive physics", Scientific American, April, pp |
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Popular Mechanics, May 1954, p | This view was strongly opposed by and by many philosophers who supported Aristotle |
Thus, ultimately, "inertia" in modern classical physics has come to be a name for the same phenomenon described by Newton's First Law of Motion, and the two concepts are now considered to be equivalent | The first physicist to completely break away from the Aristotelian model of motion was in 1614 |
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Buridan's position was that a moving object would be arrested by the resistance of the air and the weight of the body which would oppose its impetus | defined inertia as his first law in his , which states: The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line |
Theory of impetus [ ] See also: In the 14th century, rejected the notion that a motion-generating property, which he named impetus, dissipated spontaneously.
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