Question

2 Examples of directional inertia

Answer 1

The inability of a body to change by itself its direction of motion is called Inertia of direction. Examples of inertia of direction: i) A dog chases a hare, the hare runs along a zig-zag path. It becomes more difficult for the dog to catch the hare because dog has more inertia of direction than that of the hare.

ii) Snake moves zig-zag path to digest the food