While driving you hit the brakes and feel your body move forward before the seatbelt stops you. Your body moving forward is an example of

Answer 1

Your body moving forward when you hit the brakes is an example of inertia. Inertia is the tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion. When the car slows down rapidly, your body tends to continue moving at the previous speed until the seatbelt exerts a force to stop you, demonstrating Newton's first law of motion.