a car is moving at a high speed and suddenly the driver of the car applies the brake to stop the car why do people inside the car feel a jerk as the car comes to a halt?

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Dear Student,

since the car start stopping to due to brake are applied . since your body is moving with car but car got stop but due to inertia the body remain in motion hence we feel the jerk as car slows down but our body took time to stop . this jerk is feel when the car in accn either you accelerating or applying the brake .

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​a car is moving at a high speed and suddenly the driver of the car applies the brake to stop the car why do people inside the car feel a jerk as the car comes to a halt?

a car is moving at a high speed and suddenly the driver of the car applies the brake to stop the car why do people inside the car feel a jerk as the car comes to a halt?