>
> Go ahead and try it Bruce. The egg in the steel box with the seat belt
> will still break. The force will still be absorbed by the egg and not the
> container. The seat belt will actually cause injuries. Trust me. We did
> all this in AP Physics in high school. Aren't you a mechanical engineering
> major? Maybe I'm confusing you with someone else. It would seem strange
> for you to argue for the steel container if you were a mechanical
> engineering major. Oh well, all I can say is go try it for yourself. Then
> maybe you'll be convinced.
>
> Andy Callahan
>
I'm an Aerospace Engineer actually, I too had AP physics, and I've had
physics here at GA Tech also (Decided to decline the Ap credit and go
ahead and take it again), but I've also seen real-world examples, heck I
was in a bad wreck myself when I was 13 my family was in a 1984 Olds Delta
88, which is as close to a tank as you can get, and we hit a 1992 Mercury
Cougar? which has some of the crumple zones in it, we were doing about
60-65 down the highway when the mercury turnned in front of us without
slowing down (So he was still doing about 60 himself) and we hit almost
head-on, the worst injury we had was my dad got cracked ribs from bouncing
off steering wheel, the people in the other car, one had a broken leg
where the dash started coming in on him, and the driver had
life-threatening internal injuries that caused him to have to be taken to
the hospital immediately, from that and other wrecks I've seen over the
years I'll take the steel anyday, besides if you notice the steel box of a
car is cushioned, you have the seat behind you, and all surfaces have a
layer of foam on them so the steel box analogy really isn't analogous to
the real-life situation anyway.....
Bruce
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