For this Physics blog post, I will be writing about momentum. I always thought of momentum as what inertia is. Inertia is an object's capability to continue in the state that it's in. Inertia is also directly proportional to the object's mass, so things with a greater mass have a greater inertia. After looking up momentum, I found that it's the force/speed of movement, measured as a product of an object's mass and velocity. From this I can conclude that both an object's mass and velocity are directly related to its momentum. For example, when I was running on the beach, you could measure my momentum by finding my velocity and multiplying it by my mass. If I were to run faster or if my mass was greater then my momentum would increase. If I were to slow down or if my mass was less then my momentum would decrease.
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