which would be more damaging to your car: having head-on collision with an identical car traveling at an identical speed or driving head-on into the Vehicle Research Center's 320000 pound deformable crash barrier?
can you explain?
2007-01-04 12:16:02 · 6 answers · asked by Alex M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Option A
The key word here is deformable. The other vehicle would act as an un-deformable wall of effectively having an infinite mass and rigidity.
Thanks, everybody, for your concurrence on this!
2007-01-04 12:21:04 · answer #1 · answered by Steve 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steve has a point. But practically, they will both cause the same amount of damage. But since the car isn't always exactly centered with another oncoming vehicle, parts of the other car can penetrate deeper into the vehicle than a wall can.
If the speed is less than the bumper's rating, damage will be insignificant. If it's fast enough, it doesn't matter how totaled the car is.
But I'd say a head on collision would be more painful than an unmanned collision test into the research center's barrier. So, put me down for the head on collision as being more damaging too.
2007-01-04 12:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by vrrJT3 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do fairly....element of it incredibly is, if the thought holds, it nevertheless would not do lots for me on the community, macroscopic point. super-strings are implicitly meant to exist in dimensions we can't get admission to, at an power point we can't touch. They grow to be issues like remember and power whilst they drop *out of* that state, if I keep in mind wisely. besides the shown fact that it incredibly would not do lots at our point. String concept is a sort of issues human beings got here up with of their efforts to describe how quantum physics *might desire to in all probability artwork* in a universe integrated into what all of us comprehend courtesy of Einstein and Newton. it is an thought of each thing, in different words. collectively because it would desire to have useful purposes, the biggest issues are going to be approximately what the thought *predicts*. I admit however, i might desire to be incorrect, or a minimum of previous-formed...it is been a collectively as for the reason that I looked into *that* concept. only my plug nickel.
2016-10-30 00:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like steves answer. Hit the other car. Or better yet, let your friend do it!
2007-01-04 12:23:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two cars: KE=MV^2, twice the KE.
2007-01-04 12:25:05 · answer #5 · answered by jimmymae2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steve is riiigggghhhhttttt
2007-01-04 12:24:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋