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PROF. WORTHINGTON is perfectly right in saying that in my little book on mechanics I did not carefully and solely use the term inertia in the precise sense I suggested for it in my last letter. The fact that m is really only the coefficient of inertia had not been seized by me when I wrote that book. The idea of calling mass-acceleration inertia simply, was suggested, I believe, by a discussion on Newton's third law of motion in the pages of the Engineer some few years back. It is a suggestion which has gradually commended itself to me, and I am calling the attention of the British Association Committee on Mechanical Units and Nomenclature to it.
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LODGE, O. Mass and Inertia. Nature 39, 367 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039367a0
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