What causes things to change direction?

What causes things to change direction?

A force can speed up or slow down an object. A force can change the direction in which an object is moving. A bigger force on an object will produce a bigger change in the motion.

What can change the direction of the body?

Force can change the direction of a moving body.

What is an example of a change in direction?

1) Change in direction of a ball after got hit by a bat. 2) Change in direction of an asteroid after colliding with another asteroid. 3) Change in direction of a moving car after a hit from a big truck from behind.

Can photons change direction?

A photon is a quantum mechanical elementary particle and follows quantum mechanical formulae, not classical ones. In quantum mechanics the only way an elementary particle can change direction is through an interaction with another elementary particle or field.

What makes it difficult to change the direction of a body as it moves?

Friction is the force between an object in motion and the surface on which it moves. Inertia is dependent on mass, which is why it is harder to change the direction of a heavy body in motion than it is to change the direction of a lighter object in motion.

How can we change the speed and direction of a moving body?

WE CAN CHANGE THE SPEED AND THE DIRECTION OF A MOVING BODY OR A MOVING OBJECT BY APPLYING FORCE ON THAT MOVING BODY OR MOVING OBJECT.

What is a change of direction?

Change of direction is the ability to accelerate, decelerate, stop and re-accelerate in any direction without losing speed and balance.

What are the 2 things you can change about motion?

Answers and Solutions

• If a body is in a state of rest the force can make it change that stae to a state of motion.
• Force can act as a retardation and make a moving body to stop.
• A force can make a moving body to change its direction of motion.