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Mass content of a body is responsible for providing inertia to a body. When you try to move a heavy body, you apply more force to it, i.e it doesn't intend to change its state of motion, here at rest easily.. so more resistance to change the state more is the inertia.

In other sense it can also be seen as tendency to resist change in momentum of a body.

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Inertia is caused by the tendency of matter to resist changes in its state of motion. It is related to an object's mass, with more massive objects having greater inertia. The more mass an object has, the more force is needed to change its motion.

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