if 'inertia' is unwillingness to of an object to change its state of rest or uniform motion then can I say that electrons have no inertia as they are continuously moving by themselves without the need for an external force to move them and therefore have no mass since inertia is due to mass?

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2022-10-18

I don't know quantum mechanics and know a little bit about mechanics and a very little bit about subatomic particles but I am just a curious to know the answer to my question. My question is if 'inertia' is unwillingness to of an object to change its state of rest or uniform motion then can I say that electrons have no inertia as they are continuously moving by themselves without the need for an external force to move them and therefore have no mass since inertia is due to mass?

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espava8b

espava8b

Beginner2022-10-19Added 12 answers

Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its velocity. This includes changes to the object's speed, or direction of motion. An aspect of this property is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at a constant speed when no forces act upon them.
You state:
if 'inertia' is unwillingness to of an object to change its state of rest or uniform motion
Not "unwillingness", but "resistance", and this can be measured in experiments and codified in the law F=ma , Newton's second law, where m is the mass measured when accelerated.
then can I say that electrons have no inertia
But they do as they are particles with mass which can be measured by applying acceleration.
as they are continuously moving by themselves without the need for an external force
In Newton's first law , everything that is in motion continues in motion, which is true for electrons too.
Law 1. A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force.
Are you thinking of electrons bound in atoms ? That is an entirely different story, not classical mechanics and its inertia, that needs quantum mechanics to understand, which you should study if you really want to understand particle physics.

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