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....It should be noted that in the older literature, the word translated as[Donald S]
"Force" isn't necessarily force in the modern sense. It often meant
"property of" or "capacity for" or "tendency to". So we shouldn't confuse
Newton's "Force of inertia" with the F (or -F) in F=ma.
Rather than distinguish two kinds of forces we now call them both simplyI am possibly being obtuse, but the eight definitions provided by
"force". *Vis inertiae" is a force of the latter kind, a force inherent
in an object, measured by its coefficient of inertia, which appears
whenever the object is subjected to a net external force.
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Leigh