Social Inertia

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A friend of mine who is a bicycle lover once had a leisurely chat with me one hot afternoon. Accompanied by 2 cups of black coffee, 2 packs of cigarettes, and a few pieces of boiled sweet potato, he said: To maintain balance, he has to keep pedaling. Because if he stops pedaling, what happens is he will lose his balance, and as a result he will fall. Maybe this sounds a little philosophical. That means, in life, we have to keep moving. Because if we stop moving, our life will "fall", just like my cyclist friend put it.

In a different approach, namely the physics approach, why does the bicycle have to keep pedaling, it is to fight the friction force on the bicycle wheels, the air resistance force or against the gravity itself if the bicycle is on a sloping ground. He must pedal at least with this friction. Here are examples of everyday cases related to the law of inertia.

Thus, there is a tendency in every object to maintain its original position, whether it remains stationary or remains in motion. This is called the Moment of Inertia. Or known by the term: The Law of Inertia.

Newton's first law states: "Any object will maintain a state of rest or move in an orderly straight, unless a force acts to change it."

Or in Latin: "Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare."

The magnitude of the moment of inertia of an object is influenced by several factors, such as the mass of the object, the shape of the object, the location of the axis of rotation and the distance to the axis of rotation.

Mathematically, the Moment of Inertia can be formulated in the statement: "The product of the mass and the square of the distance of the mass to its axis."

Or it can be written in formula notation:

I = m.R2

Where:

I = Moment of Inertia (Kg m2)

m = mass of particle (Kg)

R = radius of rotation (m)

There are several variants regarding the moment of inertia formula, because it depends on the cross-section of the object for which the moment of inertia is calculated.

If we pull it into everyday life, it turns out that there are many Newton's first laws. Even today, there are many terms that condone this law of inertia.

Have you ever heard of the terms GP (good position) and LTZ (lazy to move)?

Yes, the two terms are also manifestations of the law of inertia. When a person is in a comfortable position in silence, he will still maintain this position.

Or if we take Newton's first law further into action in life, we can see that people who are in a certain position - which of course makes it comfortable - will have a tendency to retain their position. Because if he doesn't retain his post, Post Power Syndrome is waiting in sight.

It turns out that the law of inertia does not only occur in the world of physics, but also in social life the law of inertia applies. So that a new term was created: Social Inertia.

So, there is no need to be strange and surprised, if we often witness officials or leaders who by all means defend their positions. Because that tendency is natural. A manifestation of social inertia



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