Why a passenger on a bus moving with uniform velocity lurches forward when the bus stops suddenly?

Passenger on a moving bus with uniform velocity lurches forward when the bus stops suddenly because when the bus was in uniform motion his body was in the state of inertia of uniform motion and when the brakes are applied suddenly to stop it still continues to be in motion while the bus stops within a fraction of ...



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