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Old 10-24-2011, 10:01 PM  
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Originally Posted by seeric View Post
That host is clearly not a physics major.

Worst case scenario he says "Two cars colliding head on at 120mph".

Physically speaking the test they did is nothing close to two cars colliding into each other with BOTH of the cars moving at 120 MPH.

By crashing the car into a stationary object, to get the impact that two cars traveling at 120 mph would generate you'd have to get the sole car up to 240 mph, wouldn't you?

Speaking from a pure linear momentum perspective, what the host said they were going to demostrate is not what they did with that test.

Also, the mass of the wall is completely different than the mass of a vehicle, not to mention stationary and immovable. Changes everything.
I noticed he said that too.

But if you want to get REALLY technical, I don't think you could reproduce 2 moving cars in a head on collision using a stationary object? Taking into consideration the laws of motion...?
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