Practice question · True or false
Newton's first law states that an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by a net external force.
Hints
- Recall which of the three laws concerns the absence of net force.
- This is the statement usually called the law of inertia.
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True
Why
This is the law of inertia: no net force no change in motion.
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