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Question
Explain why, a person travelling in a bus falls forward when the bus stops suddenly.
Solution
When a moving bus stops suddenly, the passengers are jerked forward because of inertia. The passengers tend to remain in their state of motion (which they possess in a moving bus) even though the bus has come to rest.
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