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Let me now talk about another behavioral obstacle to saving having to do with inertia.
We talked about inertia and organ donations and checking the box.
And there are lots of physical parameters that change as you reduce R. The one that's most important is the inertia, or the resistance to motion.
So it turns out the inertia, which governs angular motion, scales as a fifth power of R.
So the smaller you make R, the more dramatically the inertia reduces.
And his dad said, "That's inertia."
He said, "What's inertia?"
It's called inertia.
Now, because the sea has a greater thermal inertia than the land, the average temperatures over land are actually going to be higher than they are over the sea.
And smaller is better, because along with the small size you get lower inertia.
Newton's First Law of Motion deals with inertia, which is the resistance to a change in its state of motion.
Most of the muscles are in the trunk, which is a good idea, because then the limbs have low inertia and can be moved very rapidly.
Like every other turn in ballet, the fouetté is governed by angular momentum, which is equal to the dancer's angular velocity times her rotational inertia.
Now, rotational inertia can be thought of as a body's resistance to rotational motion.
So as she brings her arms closer to her body, her rotational inertia shrinks.
The law that allows some of this to happen is called Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, and we have a great opportunity this year, because Section 702 is going to expire at the end of 2017, which means that Congress's inertia is on our side if we want reform.
The institutions of the past with all their inertia are just irrelevant for the future, except they're there and we have to deal with them.
In every flowing liquid or gas there are two opposing forces: inertia and viscosity.
Less viscous substances like water or air are more prone to inertia, which creates instabilities that develop into turbulence.
We measure where a flow falls on that spectrum with something called the Reynolds number, which is the ratio between a flow’s inertia and its viscosity.
"Naked City" is a nickname for New York, and "Spleen" embodies the melancholia and inertia that come from feeling alienated in an urban environment.
I sincerely believe that if there is any public system, in any country, that is in inertia, then we need to bring back the motivation.
My colleagues actually went on to test this limitation, by increasing the moment of inertia of a student, so they had a tail, and running them through and obstacle course, and found a decrement in performance, like you'd predict.
But I believe that the inertia of the existing borders that we have today is far worse and far more violent.
Well, partly, it's because of inertia, partly, it's because fairness isn't always easy.
They are completely demoralized and yet they press on through sheer inertia.
Perhaps no movie ever made has captured the essense of young suburban inertia like this distrubing frightening movie.
The characters, either the lead college kids (including Rider Strong as the hero and James DiBello as the goofy side-bar) or the supporting 'village' folks are archetypal to the point of inertia, if not painfully so.
2.) The inertia of 1,000 locusts would not be enough to break an average pane of glass.
Instead, forth-billed (after Claudia Cardinale and Hardy Kruger) Peter Finch takes the lead as General Nobile, whose ill-fated 1928 airship expedition to the North Pole, intended to boost Fascist Italy's international prestige, instead ended ingloriously with the survivors stranded on melting ice packs for weeks while inertia, lack of initiative and the poor chain of command resulted in buck-passing, recriminations and destroyed reputations rather than rescue attempts.
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