I kinda knew this was coming because I could not state the question properly because I dont know physics too well. But everyone knows a disc will feel very heavy for a split second in a good throw and objects inside the car become heavier in a crash etc. Thats the phenomena I tried to describe. Dont know what the actual name for it is.
Inertia.
Way too long answer follows:
Mass is the way we quantify inertia (for all intents and purposes, inertia and mass are synonymous).
A qualitative description of inertia is an object's resistance to a change in its state of motion. Newton's First Law of Motion (aka the Law of Inertia) is the one that says, "an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an external force" or "an object at constant velocity stays at constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force".
Here, the disc starts off at rest. A good reachback isn't necessarily one where the disc gets thrust backwards; in a lot of cases, the disc stays in place relative to the ground as you move around it to set up your reachback. But still, the point is, the disc is at rest and it wants to stay at rest due to Newton's First Law.
Newton's Second Law of Motion is the one that folks remember as F=ma, but that's because a simple product is easier to remember than a fraction. However, rearranging the equation gives us a=F/m where a is acceleration, F is force that must be applied to create the acceleration, and m is mass of the object being accelerated.
Now we generally think of acceleration as "speeding up" but in fact, acceleration is the change in velocity with respect to time (where velocity is speed with a direction). As such, a positive acceleration changes velocity in the positive direction and negative acceleration changes velocity in the negative direction.
For now, let's call forward the positive direction.
So... we have a disc that is at rest. We want to get it up to 80 mph. We have the length of our reachback and pull and release to get it from 0 mph (initial velocity) to 80 mph (final velocity)
In order to get that large change in arm speed (final velocity-initial velocity) in such short real estate, the time interval has to be really small.
So remember, I said acceleration is the change in velocity with respect to time (change in velocity over change in time (dv/dt))
The smaller you make the time interval, the bigger the fraction becomes for a fixed change in velocity.
Anyway, dV/dt is the very definition of velocity.
Back to Newton's Second Law which said that a=F/m.
If we know the acceleration (change in velocity over time), then that value must equal the force needed to create that acceleration (your pull) divided by the mass of the object being accelerated (your 175 g disc)
For the same size disc, if you want to crank up the acceleration, it means you need to apply more force. This is common sense, I know, but I'm trying to put the concepts all together.
If you're really interested, the second law is actually the Impulse Momentum Theorem: Fdt=mdV because F=ma and we substituted dV/dt for a and then multiplied both sides by dt. The impulse momentum theorem says that apply a force for a given amount of time, it will change the objects momentum (mass x velocity).
Anyway, Newton had a third law of motion: We call this the law of action and reaction, but really, what it says is that forces occur in pairs and every force has an equal but opposite (in direction) reaction force. Why this is crucial is the greater the applied action force, the greater the reaction force (WHICH IS WHAT YOU FEEL)
Wait, what?
Ok, bear with me. When you are in a car and you hit the gas, you do so to make your car accelerate forwards. But it FEELS like you are thrown backwards. Really, what you are experiencing is Newton's First Law all over again. Your body wants to stay at whatever velocity (or at rest), but the car moves and so it presses into your back and you feel like you are thrown backwards. Similarly, when you stomp the brakes (negative acceleration), you feel like you are thrown forwards, because again, the law of inertia says that you want to keep going at constant velocity but the car wants to slow down, so you feel like you're thrown forwards.
The point of that example is that you FEEL a force that is in the opposite direction of the acceleration.
So when you pull on your disc with your maximum acceleration that you can muster, the disc feels the heaviest it can because of the disc's inertia.