Question

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

Answer 1

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.