Question

When you are sitting in a car that is turning around a circle, you feel your body is being thrown outward. However, your physics knowledge is telling you that your centripetal acceleration is inward (toward the center of the circle). How would you reconcile this?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Centripetal force acts towards the center of the circle. However, our body is not attached to the car, it is only kept in the car. Therefore, when an external force acts on the car, inertia acts on the body due to the sense that it will try to remain in the same state.

Although the car takes the turn, but due to the inertia, the body will try to move forward; but since the seat belts are on, it is enforced to move with the car in a circular motion