It is assumed that each of the two automobiles involved in the collision described in Prob. 14.35

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It is assumed that each of the two automobiles involved in the collision described in Prob. 14.35 had been designed to safely withstand a test in which it crashed into a solid, immovable wall at the speed v0. The severity of the collision of Prob. 14.35 may then be measured for each vehicle by the ratio of the energy absorbed in the collision to the energy it absorbed in the test. On that basis, show that the collision described in Prob. 14.35 is (mA/mB)2 times more severe for automobile B than for automobile A.

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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