On 29 May 2003 16:06:53 -0700, "Sean R. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A head on collision with a barrier that absorbs a negligible amount of >energy (i.e. a concrete wall that does not collapse or move) is >equivalent to a head on collision between two cars of equivalent mass at >*the same speed*. So this is actually like a head on collision with both >cars doing 220 mph in terms of the kinetic energy absorbed by one of the >vehicles, since the wall doesn't absorb any. It does, though. Dunno about NASCAR, but USAC walls spall when they get hit really hard. -R -- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
