WHEEEE!

This weekend, my mom made me go driving pretty much everywhere we needed to go. Naturally, being a girl, I have a bag that I take with me. So I put that and my water bottle on the floor on the passenger side as shown below.


I drove my family to lunch, forgetting about my bag, and when I got to the restaurant, my bag looked like this.

My poor bag fell over! And my water bottle was gone! Some of the things in my bag were even gone! I freaked out until I remembered what we learned about fictitious force in the textbook (okay, I didn't really freak out...). After realizing what probably happened, I looked in the back seat for my stuff.

There was all my stuff! My water bottle, stress ball, Chapstick, and hand sanitizer. I have no clue where the $5 bill came from, but it's mine now. >:D

There it is, people, Physics in action! The book stresses sooooo much that there is NO force actually acting on my stuff in the car. It's the the frame in which you view it! Hence the name, fictitious force. :]