Re: Henry LaMothe

[Joel Rauber <Joel_Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

Just a small quibble on statements like that below; i.e. statements like
200g acceleration uniformly distributed is survivable.

If an acceleration is truly uniformly distributed throughout all parts of my
body, then I can survive any size acceleration.  So these numbers must all
mean differential amounts of acceleration of parts of the body relative to
other parts of the body.


> According to the Wayne State University concussion tolerance
> curve (see
> Phys Today, March '87, page 43), 100 g's can only be tolerated (by the
> brain) for 5 or 6 milliseconds.  25 ms is much longer that
> than!  Wolfgang
> Rueckner


Joel Rauber
Joel_Rauber@sdstate.edu