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Can inertia be measured?

brad89
in Modern and Theoretical Physics

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I have always wondered this, but every time I search for it I find confusing stuff. Anyway, I thought that inertia was just a property, and that it truly can't be measured. I thought it just belonged to matter, there isn't a type of matter that can have more inertia.

I have always wondered this, but every time I search for it I find confusing stuff. Anyway, I thought that inertia was just a property, and that it truly can't be measured. I thought it just belonged to matter, there isn't a type of matter that can have more inertia.

 

f=ma

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