caa a22 4500 463205871 CHVBK 20180405153126.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11191-006-9042-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11191-006-9042-x Coelho Ricardo Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande c5, P-1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal aut The Law of Inertia: How Understanding its History can Improve Physics Teaching [Elektronische Daten] [Ricardo Coelho] The law of inertia is a problem in teaching due to the impossibility of showing the proposition experimentally. As we cannot do an experiment to verify the law, we cannot know if it is correct. On the other hand, we know that the science based upon it is successful. A study in the history of mechanics has shown that there are different foundations for the law but also that the law plays the same role in the science since Newton. To avoid a statement of which we cannot be sure, the present paper proposes to understand the law through its function in the theory. In this case, we do not have to say how a free body moves, but rather that the rectilinear and uniform motion is the motion of reference in Newtonian mechanics. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Law of inertia nationallicence force nationallicence mechanics nationallicence Newton nationallicence Hertz nationallicence Science & Education Springer Netherlands 16/9-10(2007-10-01), 955-974 0926-7220 16:9-10<955 2007 16 11191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9042-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9042-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Coelho Ricardo Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande c5, P-1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science & Education Springer Netherlands 16/9-10(2007-10-01), 955-974 0926-7220 16:9-10<955 2007 16 11191 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer