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When you are standing up on a bus and the bus suddenly stops your body continues forward?

Since the bus is no longer moving as fast as that, you fly forward relative to the bus, until you hit something that stops you. This is a direct consequence of Newton's First Law: since there are no outside forces acting on you, you continue moving in a straight line at a constant speed.



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