You are driving your car along the road and hit a patch that is so icy that there is effectively no friction between your tires and the road.Which statement is most accurate?
A)If you hit the brakes, you will eventually stop.
B)If you twist the steering wheel, you can turn into the skid.
C)Nothing you do will have any effect; without any friction, you will continue to move in a straight line at a constant speed, as there is no net external force on you.
D)If you hit the accelerator, you will get out of the icy patch faster.
E)Your car will start to spin.

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Without any friction, Newton's first law of motion (inertia) states that an object in motion will stay in motion in a straight line at a constant speed unless acted upon by an external force. Since there's no friction to act as that force, options involving changing speed or direction (braking, accelerating, or steering) won't have the intended effect.

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