While Sophia was driving to work, she tried to avoid hitting an animal and instead hit a parked car. As the car stopped, her bod

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While Sophia was driving to work, she tried to avoid hitting an animal and instead hit a parked car. As the car stopped, her bod

y continued to move forward at the same speed and in the same direction.
What happened to Sophia’s body in the car accident is an example of

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Andreyy89 · Answer 1 · 2022-01-23T14:49:34+03:00

This would be an illustration of Newton's first law of motion. Law of inertia, an object moving at constant velocity will keep moving at constant velocity until a force is acted upon it. Inertia is the tendency of an object to keep moving in a particular direction resisting to change, unless a force acts upon the object.