When a car drives off a cliff why does it rotate forward as it-02068
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When the front wheels leave the cliff, the car begins to rotate forward because the front end is already beginning to fall, turn the car around the back axle. Thus by the time it is fully airborne, it is already rotating.
Remember that acceleration due to gravity is around 9. 8 meters/ second PER SECOND, so the front of the car is already falling faster than the rear!
--or--Well, for a while, the rear wheels are still up on the cliff, but the font wheels are in the air and nothing is holding them up. So as the centre of gravity of the car starts to fall, the front wheels go down while the rear ones are still being supported. Consequently, some rotation is put on the car. Conservation of momentum causes the car to continue to tumble forward even after the real wheels have left the top of the cliff.
