Re: Amazing facts

["W. Barlow Newbolt" <wnewbolt@liberty.uc.wlu.edu>]

On Thu, 9 May 1996, Clarence Bennett wrote:

> > This story is great to illustrate forces or impulse with students.  The 
> > moral is, never allow a woman in spikes to walk across your hardwood floors.
> >
> > Lowell Herr
> > The Catlin Gabel School
>
>
> or across the highway.
> Both stories also point out that people don't distinguish between force 
> and pressure.
>
>
> CB
This is what is known as smokescreen engineering.  A woman standing up 
may exert a force equal to twice her weight on the floor--300 pounds at 
the most.  A truck--well they said 16,000 pounds, and that is just the 
static case.

Like I said, smokescreen engineering.
							Barlow Newbolt