Students will be able to explain inertia, relate it to mass, and provide examples involving inertia. Inertia is an object's tendency to resist changes in its motion - objects at rest will stay at rest and objects in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by an unbalanced outside force. An object's inertia is directly proportional to its mass - the more mass an object has, the greater its inertia. Examples of inertia include a coin on cardboard pulled quickly, a ladder on a stopping truck, and other situations involving objects in motion experiencing changes.