Physics, asked by ree1, 1 year ago

Selvi placed her purse on the passenger’s seat of her car when she drove to work. By the time she reached her office, her purse had fallen on the floor in front of the passenger’s seat. Why did this happen? Explain.

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Answered by swarajsanket
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According to Sir Isaac Newton's 1st law of motion, "every object in the universe ,having a mass, has the tendency to remain in its state of motion unless and until an external agent is acted upon it."
So as Selvi started driving her car, the car came to motion as well as everything inside it according to a point of reference outside the car.
When she stopped driving , due to the inertia of motion of the purse , the purse kept on moving until it was stopped by body of the car.
So the purse fell down
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