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Re: Impulse



At 5:27 AM -0600 on 10/31/01, Brian Whatcott wrote
At 09:50 PM 10/30/01 -0500, Chuck Britton wrote:
>/snip/
>The crushable dashboard applies the same force for LESS time than the
>bouncy dashboard.

?

Accident data for the early padded dash showed INCREASED severity of
concussions.

My interpretation is that an elastic collision will last 'about'
twice as long as the inelastic collision with the crushing dash.

Let's make it 'SIMILAR' force for LESS time

does THAT compute?
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