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by semajian 2437 days ago
I've never come across a physicist who used the term "inertia" to refer to any of the common relativistic quantities.
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I used the word "inertia" to refer to the various inertia-related things that are used in mechanics. For example, the mass tensor that appears in curvilinear coordinate systems. This class of inertia-related things are usually given a name involving the word mass, and they are not usually Lorentz invariant.