If you slam on the brakes of your car, a helium-filled balloon will move towards the BACK of the car.
Since helium is lighter than air, a helium-filled balloon will float in air. This is an example of Archimedes Principle. This principle was first described by Archimedes, in the third century BC - the balloon experiences a buoyant force equal to the density of air times the volume of the balloon times the acceleration due to gravity, or
FB = p V g,
This buoyant force is directed OPPOSITE the direction of gravity (UP, whenever gravity is pointed DOWN).
Fast-forward 23 centuries, to 1907, when a young patent clerk named Albert Einstein first described something called the Equivalence Principle. This principle, the foundation of the Theory of General Relativity, states that it is impossible to distinguish between an accelerated reference frame and a gravitation-like force. In English, that means that a car decelerating (like when you slam on the breaks) feels and looks to everyone and everything inside the car as if there is a force of gravity towards the FRONT of the car. Heavy objects (like the driver, the passengers, and any loose objects sitting on the dashboard) act as if they are 'falling' forwards ('falling' in the direction of this 'gravity'). The helium-filled balloon will move towards the BACK of the car, because it will 'float' in the direction OPPOSITE this gravity.
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This is an example of something called "the Equivalence Principle" in General Relativity. This principle, first described by Albert Einstein in 1907, states that it is impossible to tell the difference between the force of gravity in one direction and an acceleration of a reference frame in the opposite direction. In other words, to all the people and objects inside a car accelerating FORWARDS, it acts, feels, and looks exactly like there is a gravitational force BACKWARDS (towards the back of the car). This is why heavy objects (like the driver, passengers, and objects left in the back seat or on the dashboard) move towards the back of the car as it accelerates - they 'fall' in the direction of this 'pseudo-gravity' that they experience. This is also why the helium-filled balloon moves to the front of the car - it "floats" in the direction opposite the 'pseudo-gravity', just like it floats when it is released outside the car into the air.
Try this experiment at home (with someone ELSE driving!). Hold a helium-filled balloon by a ribbon or string, inside a car, and have the driver take a sharp left turn. In order to make that sharp left turn, the car must accelerate to the LEFT. By the Equivalence Principle, everything inside the car should act as if it is experiencing a force of gravity to the RIGHT. Heavy objects (you, for instance), will feel a force pushing you to the right - you will 'fall' towards the right side of the car. Because it is less dense than air, the helium-filled balloon will 'float' in this same gravity, towards the LEFT. What do you predict will happen to the helium-filled balloon when the driver makes a sudden, sharp turn to the RIGHT? What will happen to the balloon when the driver slams on the brakes?
Balloon moves forward due to the difference in the density of air inside and outside of the balloon.
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LIFE. Also that many fewer asteroids floating around that could slam into earth and end all life.
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Nervous tissue can't repair it self. When it gets damaged from a slam or a cut, it start to shrink and loses its function. Even with surgery its very difficult to regenerate it
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Yes it is.
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yes, the only purpose of the anti-lock system is to keep the wheels from locking up when you slam on the brakes. The brakes them selves function as usual. You will just have the chance of locking your wheels up and sliding if you slam on them.
Slam on your brakes. If your brakes lock up, then you do not have ABS. If your brakes do not lock up and you hear a knocking type of noise from your brakes, then you have ABS.
It is your momentum of moving forward that has to be overcome before your brakes can bring the bicycle to a stop.
Your momentum wants to keep moving forward.
dont slam on the breaks
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In a car without ABS, if you slam on the brakes, your wheels will lock and your car will skid. ABS prevents the wheels from locking by releasing the brakes if you start to loose traction.
if you slam on the brakes hard then the wheels dont lock up
Don't slam on your brakes & take foot off accelorator