Explain Newton's first Law and solve related problems You are driving to class with your physics book on the front seat. You slam your brakes at a red light and your physics book flies forward into the glove compartment. Which property of the book causes it to do this? a. inertia   b. it would only do this if you pushed it   c. because you had to be accelerating forward before you hit the brakes   d. the book was hit by a propelling force from the car seat   e. none of these

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Explain Newton's first Law and solve related problems

You are driving to class with your physics book on the front seat. You slam your brakes at a red light and your physics book flies forward into the glove compartment. Which property of the book causes it to do this?

a.

inertia

  b.

it would only do this if you pushed it

  c.

because you had to be accelerating forward before you hit the brakes

  d.

the book was hit by a propelling force from the car seat

  e.

none of these

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