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Mass is the coefficient of inertia. It expresses the strengthLudwig wrote:
of the tendency to "preserve velocity" quantitatively. "Mass"
has another function, its gravitational effect. Thus "inertia"
refers only to one attribute of mass. The terms are not
interchangeable in all contexts.