Fill in the following blanks with suitable words :
(a) is a measure of the inertia of a body.
(b) When a running car stops suddenly, the passengers are jerked .
(c) When a stationary car starts suddenly, the passengers are jerked .
(d) Newton’s first law of motion is also called Galileo’s law of .
(e) If there were no unbalanced force of and no resistance, a moving bicycle would go on moving forever.

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(a) Mass is a measure of the inertia of a body.
(b) When a running car stops suddenly, the passengers are jerked forward.
(c) When a stationary car starts suddenly, the passengers are jerked backward
(d) Newton’s first law of motion is also called Galileo’s law of inertia.
(e) If there were no unbalanced force of friction and no air resistance, a moving bicycle would go on moving forever.

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