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Explanation:
Bumper cars are a great place to see Sir Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion in action. Here’s how:
Newton’s First Law: Every object in motion continues in motion and every object at rest continues to be at rest unless an outside force acts upon it.
This is because all objects have inertia – the property of matter that resists changes to the object’s motion.
Newton found that if a ball is sitting on a table, it will stay sitting there because that is what it ‘wants’ to do.
If the ball is set in motion, it will keep traveling in a straight path because, again, that is what it ‘wants’ to do.
An object in motion will not stop, slow down, or change its direction unless an outside force acts on it (such as gravity, friction, and air resistance).
When you are riding in a bumper car and end up in a collision with another bumper car, you feel a jolt. This is because your body’s inertia wants it to keep traveling in the direction it was moving with the car even though your bumper car has now suddenly stopped.
Newton’s Second Law: The greater the mass of an object, the harder it is to change its speed.
(More force is needed to move it.)
You already know this law and practice it in your everyday life. Something that is small, such as a pebble, is much easier to pick up and throw than something that is large and heavy, such as a boulder.
When riding in the bumper cars, you may have noticed that people who weigh less tend to get pushed around more than people who weigh more.
The more mass (weight) an object has, the more force it takes to move it.
And since all the bumper cars usually have the same top velocity, the cars carrying more mass will never travel as far as the cars carrying less mass after a collision.
Newton’s Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
If two bumper cars traveling at the same speed and carrying the same amount of weight run into each other, they will bounce off and move an equal distance away from each other.
And based on the second law, if there is a difference in the amount of weight being carried in the two cars, the car with less weight will travel farther away from the point of impact than the car carrying more weight.
