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State the law of Inertia.


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  1. According to Galileo's law of inertia, ‘When no unbalanced force is exerted on a body, it stays at rest or moves in a straight line with constant speed, i.e., it will remain unaccelerated’.
  2. In other words, an unbalanced force is required to change the state of rest or of motion of the body.

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