Open Access¿Es la masa la medida de la inercia?
Author(s) -
E. Zalamea Godoy,
R. Paris Espinosa
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
enseñanza de las ciencias/enseñanza de las ciencias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-6486
pISSN - 0212-4521
DOI - 10.5565/rev/ensciencias.4671
Subject(s) - inertia , movement (music) , philosophy , physics , aesthetics , classical mechanics
In this paper we analyse from a critical point of view the definition that has usually been given to inertia as «the resistance that a body presents to its movement being modificó». We also reflect on the unwanted didactic implications that this definition —that grants bodies a «property of decision over their own movement»— can have on general physics courses.