Hey everyone, this is Dalton, with another astronomy post. This week we will be going over inertia, the reason the microwave thing in the picture above went flying off the car when it braked! So what does the term "inertia" mean? Inertia basically means that objects at rest stay at rest and objects in motion stay in motion. For example, imagine you are somehow balancing on top of a formula race car going full throttle. Suddenly, it brakes. The car stops, but you fly a good fifteen feet forward and roll another 20.
This is a good example of inertia. You and the car are moving, but when the car stops, you are still moving. Another example: when your mom brakes in the car and that milkshake you're holding ends up on the windshield. This is inertia, put simply, but inertia can be much more complicated than this. Inertia is vital to planets orbiting the sun. Without it, we would be too close to the sun and burn up, or be too far from the sun and freeze.Inertia is vital to our everyday lives and without it we would not survive.
A very interesting and fun to read essay! I think you're formatting could be a bit better though. To me it seems a bit clunky. Maybe try putting text next to an image so it doesn't feel like the images are cutting into what's being said? Still really interesting though! I also think you're probably ahead of me since I don't remember reading about any of this stuff yet.