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You are hurt when you kick a stone, but not to football. Why?


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  1. As the stone is heavier, it has more inertia than that of football.
  2. When we kick the stone it gives more recoil than when we kick the football.
  3. So kicking a stone will give more hurt than we kick a football or we can say that due to more inertia of stone.
  4. It resists much larger than football to change its state of rest due to which it hurts while kicking a stone.

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