Ms. Lachance has to pick up her daughter from the airport and is running late. As she pulls her car out of the driveway and starts to drive down the road, she takes off as fast as her car will go. When she does this her coffee cup, which she left on the hood by accident flies into the windshield making it hard for her to see. Using Newton’s first law, explain why the coffee spilt all over the windshield.

Asolid cylinder and a cylindrical shell have the same mass, same radius, and turn on frictionless, horizontal axles. the cylindrical shell has light-weight spokes connecting the shell to the axle. a rope is wrapped around each cylinder and tied to blocks of equal masses that are held the same height above the ground. both blocks are released simultaneously. the ropes do not slip. which block hits the ground first? or is it a tie?