Physics
Grade-8
Easy
Question
A straight moving bus takes a sharp left turn. What will happen to the passengers sitting inside the bus?
- Passengers will tilt rightwards
- Passenger will tilt leftwards
- Passengers will stay the way they are
- Passengers will start jumping
Hint:
Inertia of direction.
The correct answer is: Passengers will tilt rightwards
When the bus suddenly takes a sharp turn, the lower portion of passengers which is contact with the bus tends to move in that direction but the upper portion of the passengers gets thrown outward. This happens due to the INERTIA OF DIRECTION.
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