A bus is moving along a straight path and takes a sharp turn to the right side suddenly. The passengers sitting on the bus will

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SSC CHSL Memory Based Test (Held on: 8 August 2023 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct option is bent towards left side.

Key Points

A bus is moving along a straight path and takes a sharp turn to the right side suddenly. The passengers sitting on the bus will bend towards the left side.
The lower portion of passengers closest to the bus tends to go in the direction of the sharp turn because of centripetal force, but the upper portion of passengers throws an outside centrifugal force.
This is happening due to two forces that are acting at that time centripetal and centrifugal forces.

Additional Information

Centripetal Force:

Centripetal force is a force that acts on a body traveling in a circle and is aimed at the center of the body's motion.
Its movement is orthogonal at a right angle to the body's motion in the direction of the body's path's center of curvature.
It keeps the body moving along a circular path.

Centrifugal Force:

The force experienced by an object traveling in a circle directed away from the center of the circle is known as Centrifugal Force.
The force that pushes an item rotating away from its axis of rotation is known as centrifugal force.