Question

Carole is surprised when she makes an emergency stop and the tissue box that had been in the back window of her car hits the back of her seat. How would Newton explain what happened?

A. The force of stopping caused it to accelerate.

B. An object in motion tends to stay in motion.

C. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

D. Box mass and inertia accelerate with the force.

Answer 1

A. The force from the motion of a moving car forced the tissue box to fly foreword same as the individual in the car .

Answer 2

B

Step-by-step explanation:

Consider the car and the tissue box being two separate objects, both travelling at the same velocity. If one of them is forced to a stop (in this case, the car), then the tissue box (not having anything to stop it) will continue on a straight path, following the direction it was going in. A similar example of such a principle would be a person going down a hill on a skateboard, if the skateboard is suddenly forced to stop, then the person will be sent forward, because an object in motion tends to stay in motion.