Editor Staff asked 1 year ago
A straight moving bus takes a sharp right turn. What will happen to the passengers sitting inside the bus?
(a) They will tilt rightwards
(b) They will tilt leftwards
(c) They will stay the way they were
(d) They will start jumping
The question was posed to me in semester exam.
Origin of the question is Newton’s First Law of Motion topic in chapter Laws of Motion of Physics – Class 11
Select the correct answer from above options
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Editor Staff answered 1 year ago
Correct option is (b) They will tilt leftwards
Easy explanation: When the bus takes a sharp right turn, the inertia of the bus changes. But the inertia of the passengers is still towards the straight direction. Hence, they will relatively move towards the left.
