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    Seatbelts help prevent injury during car accidents by keeping passengers securely strapped into their seats so they decelerate at the same rate as the vehicle upon impact and don't continue moving independently. Without a seatbelt, an occupant's inertia would cause them to keep moving forward at the speed the car was traveling until hitting an interior surface, often with force, as the car itself comes to a stop due to external resisting forces. Airbags help absorb some of this impact force by providing a cushion between the passenger and hard interior surfaces, in accordance with Newton's third law of equal and opposite reaction forces. A vehicle in motion carries significant momentum due to its mass and velocity, making impacts dangerous without restraints that allow occupants to

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    Seatbelts help prevent injury during car accidents by keeping passengers securely strapped into their seats so they decelerate at the same rate as the vehicle upon impact and don't continue moving independently. Without a seatbelt, an occupant's inertia would cause them to keep moving forward at the speed the car was traveling until hitting an interior surface, often with force, as the car itself comes to a stop due to external resisting forces. Airbags help absorb some of this impact force by providing a cushion between the passenger and hard interior surfaces, in accordance with Newton's third law of equal and opposite reaction forces. A vehicle in motion carries significant momentum due to its mass and velocity, making impacts dangerous without restraints that allow occupants to

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    Causes of A Car Crash Physics

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    Seatbelts help prevent injury during car accidents by keeping passengers securely strapped into their seats so they decelerate at the same rate as the vehicle upon impact and don't continue moving independently. Without a seatbelt, an occupant's inertia would cause them to keep moving forward at the speed the car was traveling until hitting an interior surface, often with force, as the car itself comes to a stop due to external resisting forces. Airbags help absorb some of this impact force by providing a cushion between the passenger and hard interior surfaces, in accordance with Newton's third law of equal and opposite reaction forces. A vehicle in motion carries significant momentum due to its mass and velocity, making impacts dangerous without restraints that allow occupants to

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    Causes:

    1. First Law of Motion: Inertia


    -an object either is at rest or moves at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external
    force.
    *Strapped seatbelt
    Since there is an unbalanced force acting on the car, it won’t maintain its motion and will
    immediately decelerate to rest. The passenger will share the same state of motion as the car,
    both will decelerate as one and the passenger will be pulled forward
    *Unstrapped seatbelt
    Due to the unbalanced force, the car will decelerate to rest, & the passenger won’t share the
    same motion as the car.The passenger will continue its state of motion due to Inertia, & might
    exit the car & continue in projectile-motion depending on vehicle types.

    2. Second Law of Motion


    -Net Force =mass x acceleration
    Without a seatbelt the passenger would continue to follow Newton's first law of motion.
    Eventually the driver will come in contact with another object, the force that the driver hits that
    object the space of their mass and acceleration of the car.

    3. Third Law of Motion


    -To every reaction force there is an equal and opposite reaction force
    This law results in injuries in car accidents. Therefore, airbags are created to absorb the force
    that your body would apply on the dashboard or windshield in a car crash

    4. Momentum
    -Momentum =mass x velocity, the quantity of motion / mass in motion
    A large amount of momentum can be created if an object has a large mass, high speed or a
    combination of both. A car with a large amount of momentum is dangerous as it will be very
    hard to stop.

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