When you are riding on a bus and it suddenly stops what will happen to you?

When a bus stops suddenly, its passengers tend to fall forward because due to their inertia the passengers tend to remain in a state of motion even though the bus has come to rest. Was this answer helpful? Why is it so that when a bus suddenly starts moving.



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And the bus stopped suddenly. I fell down. Because of Newton's Law of Inertia, which states: An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

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This is due to inertia of rest of upper part of the passengers body when the bus or train suddenly starts moving, the lower part of the passenger's body starts moving along with the bus or train while upper part of the body has a tendency to remain in the state of rest due to inertia of rest and hence falls backward.

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The energy of the bus has to go somewhere, and the momentum too, as they are independently conserved. Part of the energy goes to heat, in the brakes and on the contact ground/wheels. Heat means photons, so photons may take away some momentum. But most momentum through friction is transferred to the ground .

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Initially, the passengers and the bus both are moving in same direction. When the bus suddenly takes a sharp turn, the lower portion of passengers which is contact with the bus tends to move in that direction but the upper portion of the passengers throw an outside. This happens due to the INERTIA OF DIRECTION.

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When a bus or train at rest starts, to move suddenly, the passengers sitting in it jerk in the backward direction due to their inertia of rest.

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8) When applying brakes in a school bus, whether it is hydraulic or air brakes, there is a general braking technique that should be followed. You should use your right foot when braking. Also, a school bus is much heavier than smaller vehicles and requires the driver to begin braking sooner in order to stop smoothly.

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Many buses these days are so-called 'kneeling buses. ' They have an air-ride front axle that dumps air when they stop and open the door to put the step closer to the ground for easy entrance/exit.

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