Roy has a bowling ball in the trunk of his car when he goes around corners the ball rolls across the truck and A) if roy turns to the right which wall of the trunk will the ball hit?
b) Once the ball hit the wall of the trunk the wall exerts a force on the ball. what type of force is this? WHat direction does it act in?
Roy is stupid.
the ball will keep going in the direction it was going in. If he turns to the right, it goes left (actually, straight ahead, but Roy thinks it is going left).
b. The wall exerts centripetal force on the ball in a turn. It acts into the turn.
To determine which wall of the trunk the bowling ball will hit when Roy turns to the right, we need to consider the concept of inertia. Inertia is the tendency of an object to resist changes in its motion. When Roy turns the car to the right, the bowling ball wants to continue moving in a straight line due to its inertia.
a) If Roy turns to the right, the bowling ball will hit the left wall of the trunk. This is because when the car turns to the right, the bowling ball continues moving forward due to its inertia and hits the side of the trunk that is opposite to the direction of the turn.
b) Once the ball hits the wall of the trunk, the wall exerts a force on the ball. This force is known as the contact force or normal force. The normal force acts perpendicular to the surface of contact between objects. In this case, the normal force from the wall acts horizontally towards the right, opposite to the direction in which the ball was moving.
To summarize:
a) The bowling ball will hit the left wall of the trunk.
b) The force exerted by the wall on the ball is the normal force, acting horizontally towards the right.