How is it that when your driving if you press the brakes slightly rough, the passengers in the car are flung forward with more force than yourself?
2007-01-23 01:22:49 · 3 answers · asked by drummer4metal616 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
That's because acceleration (change of speed) is trying to stay the same. Pressing the brake hard, everybody would move forward. You (the driver) have a steering wheel stopping you.
2007-01-23 01:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by Mattman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is explained in newtons law of motion.INERTIA,which states that every thing tends to remain in its position or motion.
when a car is in motion the person sitting is also moving with the car.but when the car stops the person's body wants to move the way it was.here the driver has sitbelts which increases his stoping time and decreases his retardation(-acceleration),but the passenger isnt wearing any belt so it is possible that the passenger hits the windscreen.
2007-01-23 09:34:45 · answer #2 · answered by tonima 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you know it's coming and brace yourself. They have no clue what you are planning on doing and therefore are not as prepared for it. (I hate that cause everyone complains I have no clue what they're complaining about :))
2007-01-23 09:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by DavidJackson 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It just seems that way since you have a steering wheel to brace yourself against and they don't have anything.
2007-01-23 09:31:08 · answer #4 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋