What is the difference between friction and inertia? Are they same in some aspect?

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2022-11-24

What is the difference between friction and inertia? Are they same in some aspect?

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The first distinction is that inertia is a property while friction is a force.
Nweton's first law states that inertia is a property that causes a body at rest to tend to stay at rest and a body in motion to tend to continue moving in the same direction and at the same speed (a=0).
Assume that if someone tries to change a body's speed or state of rest, an acceleration (a≠0) and a force (F=ma≠0) will be produced as a result. Thus, the force required to stop a moving object depends entirely on its mass, acceleration, and inertia, which is only a feature that causes acceleration.
When a body is moving in contact with another body, friction acts as a resistive force (contact force).
Inertia, in a nutshell, is a feature of the body that causes it to tend to remain in the state in which it was. Laziness is akin to friction, which is the force between two surfaces. The force of friction dissipates.

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