Question

What is meant by the following statement?

"Inertia is directly proportional to mass."


Inertia and mass are the same size.

Inertia increases as mass decreases.

Inertia increases as mass increases.

Answer 1

@King.Void.

Answer 2

What do you think it should be?

Answer 3

same size?

Answer 4

Nopes, proportionality indicates relation. When you say x is proportional to y that means any change in x will induce same effect on y.

Answer 5

Ring a bell?

Answer 6

so it decreases?

Answer 7

nvm got it:)

Answer 8

thnx

Answer 9

Welcome :-)

You can read this if you want though..
https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20is%20the%20meaning%20of%20directly%20proportional