Just a quick question about a car jumping.

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When a car jumps off a ramp and is rotating forward, applying the brakes and reversing the wheels will result in a steeper nose-dive. This occurs because the action of reversing the wheels removes forward rotation, leading to an increase in the forward rotation of the car to conserve angular momentum. The consensus among participants confirms that this maneuver exacerbates the nose-dive rather than mitigating it.

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A car drives fast off the top of a ramp, but while it is in the air it is rotating forward (towards a nose-dive). Would suddenly putting the brakes on and reversing your wheels as fast as you can either:
a) not effect the rotation
b) slow the rotation, bringing it out of the nose-dive
c) push the car into a steeper nose-dive.
Can I have an explanation with it aswell?

My thoughts atm is that it would push the car into a steeper nose-dive, because you would be removing forward rotation from the wheels, so to conserve the rotation, the car would rotate faster forward.
 
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Your thoughts are correct. It would push it into a steeper nosedive.
 

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