An object is traveling in a straight line in space.No forces are affecting it. What will happen to the object's motion?
t will not change. It will continue
in the same direction at the same
speed..
Science Fusion
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Look up the term, inertia.
If there are no external forces acting on an object traveling in a straight line in space, the object will continue to move at a constant velocity in the same direction. This is known as Newton's first law of motion, or the law of inertia. Inertia is the tendency of an object to resist any change in its state of motion. So, in the absence of any external forces, the object will neither speed up nor slow down, and it will continue to move in a straight line with the same speed indefinitely.
If no external forces are acting on an object traveling in a straight line in space, according to Newton's first law of motion, the object will continue to move with a constant velocity. This means that the object will maintain both its speed and its direction indefinitely, unless acted upon by an external force.
The reason for this is that in the absence of external forces, there is no net force acting on the object. According to Newton's second law of motion, when the net force acting on an object is zero, the object will continue to move with a constant velocity, or remain at rest if it was initially at rest.
Therefore, in the scenario you described, the object will continue moving in a straight line with the same speed and direction until influenced by an external force.