Physics Behind Cars

In one or more complete sentences, explain how natural laws apply to the following scenarios: How does inertia affect a person who is not wearing a seatbelt during a collision? Before a collision occurs, a car is going a certain speed. A collision causes the car to stop or slow down drastically. Everything that is in the car will still be going the same speed that the car was going, unless it is either stopped by a seatbelt or held down in some other way. A person in a seatbelt, would stop with the car, while a person without a seatbelt would follow its path of inertia keep moving.

Cars have a crumple zone in the front of the hood... this allows the car to literally crumple like an accordion when it hits something.

Before entering a sharp curve, the kinetic energy of the moving car is very high, to prepare for this curve, the driver can slow down the vehicle to reduce its kinetic energy to stay safe.

In this Car Crash Project, we had to make sure we used Newton’s 3 laws. Let me explain you how I used the 3 laws in my project. For my project, I had three main important parts in my car. One of them was the crumple zone because the car is in motion until it hits the yellow which is the outside force. In Newton’s First Law he states that every object stays in motion unless acted upon an outside force. Here the object in motion is the car, and the outside force is the yellow stump. Another main component was the seat belt. The seat belt fell in Newton’s Second Law. In that law, it explains how force equals mass x acceleration. So, When the egg is wearing the seatbelt it will stop the egg from accelerating or being in motion. If it was accelerating

The Physics of NASCAR by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky: How can a car going 190 mph operate with precision? How can race car drivers walk away from disastrous crashes? The author, a physicist, caught a NASCAR race on television and wondered those same things. In The Physics of NASCAR, Leslie-Pelecky explores the science

wide lip that keeps the car from rolling off the side of the track). The car also has another set of

Crumple zones are designed to deform and crumple during a collision to keep the drivers and passengers of

To start, Newton’s first law is about motion and inertia. According to our textbook, when a car crashes, the momentum will be 0. The shorter the time, the greater the force will be. With airbags, the momentum is slowed down in a shorter amount of time, which leads to a smaller force (Video). The video showed us that when you throw an egg at a wall, it will break instantly, but if you threw an egg at a curtain,

just like an actual car we have a sturdier crumple zone on the front since it will crash front first into the block and the chances of it landing on the back are way less, there is a smaller and less sturdy crumple zone.

The modern solution is something called a roll-cage. A roll-cage is a specifically engineered frame that is located in the passenger side of any race car. The purpose is to protect the car's occupants from getting injured if they're bodies are to sway to that side in a crash.

United States airlines are currently enjoying a boom due to streamlining over the past few years, streamlining that included mergers and acquisitions. The streamlining was because of many carriers going bankrupt in the last decade, a situation that was attributed to generous base pay rates and work rules negotiated by the unions as a result of previous good profits. The current boom is also tempered by fractious labor relations between the airlines and staff. Delta Airlines suffered from their pilots picketing in 2016. Southwest pushed back purchase of new airplanes partly because of tensions with its pilots. This is despite the two airlines having a history of good labor relations where they have awarded good remuneration to their workers, relations that have made them some of the most financially successful airlines in the world (Bhaskara, 2016).

car will accelerate and how fast it will go. Newton’s second law is the easiest to understand in relation to a car’s acceleration. Newton’s second law mathematically states Force=(mass)(acceleration) (Murphy 78). This law explains why cars that need to accelerate fast should be relatively light in weight compared to other cars. Removing mass, such as a bumper, radio or fancy upholstery reduces the weight of

Generally, there are not as many documented physical abuse cases for men as there are for women. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline (2014), men are less likely to seek help when it comes to physical abuse. “1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) aged 18 and older in the United States have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime” (National Domestic Violence Hotline, 2014). The stigma revolving around masculinity and how society views men teaches them not to express their feelings and see themselves as victims. The common stereotype is that men are seen as the abusers and women are seen as victims, therefore men who express their feelings are seen as weak and incapable of being a “man”.

It must be noted that cars are dangerous vehicles which can cause fatal damage. Individuals responsible for a vehicle are expected to be more alert than pedestrians walking down the street or crossing the road, this is known as “destructive disparity”. This

Ancient Egyptians are ones who seem to be obsessed with the idea of the afterlife, so much so that they have seemingly endless rituals and preparations for a person who has passed. Their kings strive to keep order and peace throughout their kingdom so they can generate ma’ at for the gods. They do this so they can have a happy afterlife, but it seems that only few of the wealthy Egyptians can get their hands on the book of the dead for the afterlife. Ma’at can be seen as the very essence of Egypt, it sets the bar for social contract and how people with authority should righteously govern those lower on the hierarchical scale.