|  Inertia | 
In General
  > s.a. Newton's Laws; mach's
  principle; mass.
  * Idea:
    The resistance an object opposes to acceleration.
  * History: The concept
    was first understood by Galileo, and formalized in Newton's first law of
    dynamics; D'Alembert [@ Traité de dynamique, p3] argued that
    Newton's first law can be established without the need for observation or
    experiment.
  * Limits on anisotropy:
    Experiments around 1960 by Hughes and by Drever; The relative size of
    the effect is < 10−18.
  > Related topics:
    see Moment of Inertia; vacuum.
Origin > s.a. mass.
  * Idea: Two possibilities are
    that inertia arises as a result of gravitational interactions, or from the
    interaction of material particles with local fluctuations of the quantum
    vacuum (Haisch & Rueda).
  @ Quantum fluctuations: Smolin CQG(86) [and quantum gravity];
    Mashhoon FPL(93);
    Jaekel & Reynaud JdP(93)qp/01 [inertia of Casimir energy],
    in(97)qp/95;
    Milgrom PLA(99)ap/98 [and MOND];
    Dobyns et al FP(00);
    Jaekel & Reynaud in(11)-a0812;
    Pollock FP(12).
  @ Electromagnetic: Haisch et al phy/98-conf;
    Rueda & Haisch PLA(98)phy,
    FP(98)phy;
    Haisch & Rueda AIP(99)gq,
    PLA(00)gq/99,
    in(98)gq/99;
    Haisch et al AIP(03)gq/02;
    Woodward & Mahood FP(99),
    Woodward FP(01) [untenable];
    Martins & Pinheiro IJTP(08);
    Lyle 10
      [and self-force, r GRG(12)].
  @ Mach's principle: Mashhoon PLA(88);
    Graneau & Graneau GRG(03) [Newton-Mach particle interactions];
    Woodward FP(04) [proposed test];
    Sultana & Kazanas IJMPD(11)-a1104 [and Sciama's law of inertial induction, in FLRW spacetimes];
    Mashhoon a1509-fs;
    Putz a1808.
  @ Entropic formulation: Santos & Vancea MPLA(12)-a1002;
    Bagchi & Fring IJMPB(19)-a1709 [quantum and non-commutative corrections];
    > s.a. entropic gravity.
  @ Related topics: Mashhoon & Kaiser PhyB(06)qp/05 [and intrinsic spin];
    Masreliez PS(07) [acceleration-dependent metric?];
    Moffat & Toth MNRAS(09)-a0710 [modified gravity and test-particle motion];
    Lee FP(12)-a1003 [holography and dragging of the Rindler horizon];
    Tsarouchas a1703.
References
  > s.a. anomalous acceleration / models of spacetime.
  @ General: Sciama MRAS(53),
    SA(57);
    Barbour BJPS(82);
    Rosu G&C(99)gq/94.
  @ And gravitation: Ciufolini & Wheeler 95;
    Giné IJTP(11);
    Shuler PE(11).
  @ Covariant definition: Abramowicz in(93);
    Abramowicz et al CQG(93);
    Sonego & Massar CQG(96).
  @ Limits on anisotropy: Cocconi & Salpeter NC(58),
    PRL(60);
    Hughes et al PRL(60);
    Sherwin et al PRL(60).
 
  @ Other: Rohrlich PRD(01) [and self-interaction];
    Caplan & Heald AJP(04)jul [re class demonstration];
    Afriat & Caccese SHPMP(10)-a0804;
    Ter-Kazarian ASS(10)-a1001 [and field theory of deformations];
    Smerlak EPJP(12)-a1202 [the inertia of heat].
  > Online resources:
    see Wikipedia page.
Inertial Frame and Related Concepts > s.a. equivalence
  principle / force / reference frame.
  * Idea: An ideal element of
    Newtonian physics, identified by the validity of Newton's laws in it.
  @ References: Barbour 89;
    DiSalle in(02);
    Saunders PhSc-a1609 [and Newton's Principia].
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