Answer to Question #141460 in Physics for Nathan Bizuneh

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You make a sharp left turn in your car and your cellphone slips off the dashboard and out the right passenger window. The cellphone leaves the car because

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The cellphone leaves the car because the phenomenon of inertia - the resistance of any physical object to any change in its velocity. When the velocity of the car was changed sharply to the left, the velocity of the cellphone was remaining straight. In the car's coordinate frame this lead to the movement of the cellphone to the right.