Question 40:
(a) What happens to the passengers travelling in a bus when the bus takes a sharp turn ? Give reasons for
your answer.
(b) Why are road accidents at high speeds very much worse than road accidents at low speeds ?
Lakhmir Singh Physics Class 9
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a) When a bus takes a sharp turn, the passengers tend to fall sideways because of their inertia or their tendency to continue moving in a straight line.
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a.
When a bus takes a sharp turn, the person travelling in the bus tends to be thrown outwards towards the window. This is due to inertia of direction of the passenger.
b.
The road accidents at high speeds involve much large changes in momentum in much smaller time. Therfore, forces developed (change in momentum//time) are very huge resulting in disaste
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