At 1:00 a.m., someone breaks a window in the back of a store and robs the safe. On the way out, the thief is cut on a piece of b
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Answer:
The books slide to the left due to inertia, and then they come to a rest due to the force applied by the car door.
Explanation:
The entire motion of the books can be explained by using the first two laws of Newton:
- 1st Newton's law (also called Law of Inertia): an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with constant velocity if no unbalanced forces act on it
- 2nd Newton's law: when an object is acted upon unbalanced forces, an acceleration is induced in the motion of the object, according to the equation
where F is the net force on the object, m is its mass and a is its acceleration.
Coming back to our problem:
- At the beginning, Argelia makes a sharp turn right. Due to the law of inertia, the books (which are not fixed to the car) continue their motion straight as it was before the curve: so, since the car is moving right, they appear to go the left of the car.
- When the books hit the car door, they stop moving due to the 2nd Newton's law: in fact, the car door applies an unbalanced force against the books, and as a result the books have a negative acceleration (=deceleration), so they slow down and eventually they stop.