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Question
Give scientific reason for the following:
While climbing a hill you will try to bend your body forward.
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Solution
We bend forward in order to keep ourselves in a stable equilibrium while climbing up a hill. By bending forward we increases the base of the support, so that the vertical line passing through our centre of gravity still falls within the base.
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