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The forward momentum forces you back.
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Why does one tend to fall backwards on a bus when it starts from a standstill?
It's all about momentum. When the bus is standing still, your body is standing still and has no momentum. When the bus begins to move, you body wants to stay stationary. Because it's resisting the acceleration of the bus, you don't accelerate with the bus and therefore get pushed backwards.
Why do dyou tend to fall backwards on a bus when it accelerates from rest?
It is because of Newtons first law of inertia. When the bus moves forward your body is inclined to stay in the same position, so it is as if the floor is moving out from under your feet.
Whenever you watch a high flying aircraft overhead it seems that its sound comes from behind the craft why is that?
The sound takes time to travel from up in the air down to the ground. So, if the plane is directly overhead, the sound takes a little time to reach you, so that by the time you hear it, the plane has moved a bit. The sound is loudest when the plane is directly overhead, which is how we tend to judge where the sound is "coming from," so it appears to be coming from behind the plane. This is called the Doppler Affect.
Why does one tend to fall backward on a bus when it starts out from a stand still?
why dose one tend to fall backward on a bus when it starts out from a stand still why dose one tend to fall backward on a bus when it starts out from a stand still
Does long hair tend to fall?
No long hair need not fall , just because it is long.
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The Russians tend to be unwilling to give out figures like that.
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Because natural satellites tend to lie in the primary's equatorial plane.
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The stress is in the second syllable ... in-TEND
