Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics
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Published 2020-05-12
What happens to vehicles and their occupants in crashes is determined by science. "You can't argue with the laws of physics," says Griff Jones, award-winning high school physics teacher who goes behind the scenes at the Institute's Vehicle Research Center to explore the basic science behind car crashes. Using a series of vehicle maneuvers on a test track plus filmed results of vehicle crash tests, Jones explains in anything but lecture style the concept of inertia, the relationship between crash forces and inertia, momentum and impulse, and a lot more.
Quote from Paul G. Hewitt, the developer of the "Conceptual Physics" curriculum and author of the best selling text book by the same name: "The video "Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics" and accompanying teacher's guide are wonderful. The pacing is excellent, the coverage fascinating, and most importantly, the physics is correct. It's a first rate teaching package. I give it five stars!"
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All Comments (21)
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Imagine watching this video for school
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They use "p" for momentum because when Liebniz in Germany was developing a lot of the same ideas as Newto,n he used the term "progress," hence "p," defined as the quantity of motion with which a bod proceeds in a certain direction.
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How do I know physics so well? I have watched this video or a variation of it about once a month for the last ten years showing it to my driving students.
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I'm a sophomore and I'm taking physics inertia is actually kind of interesting I'm also practicing driving so I guess this'll help
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The British driver Mark Blundell survived the crash at 9:30 with a broken foot, the crash took part in Rio
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Excellent job explaining the physics of car crashes.
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I'm a Physics major so i already knew the formulas like i know my own name, but the explanation was just so fun that i still watched it all hahaha
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I grew up in Northern Virginia. Moved away about 15 years ago. Visited the area again and the drivers there really scared me. So many bad drivers in NoVa days.(worse than NYC, Chicago, and even LA)
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Awesome video. Great job
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cool，You cant get away from the very basic physics！
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Got sent here for school☠️
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Such a good vehicle with so little comments? Thats really disappointing, but also a good thing since not many people are arguing about this.
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I would love to have that job and seeing this stuff i naction in person insteadof videos/movies/games but holly crap that is just insane on how this stuff works and all. that's crazy of what we can do on computers and to control electronic stuff from computers. 3:30 When you forget/forgot to strap on your seatbelt(s) and this happens: 3:32
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yo thanks dude
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Enhancing road safety with physics!
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now this is crazy
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Anyone got the answers to the worksheet. Would be much appreciated
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I really felt the chest pain when the Dummy got nailed. Ouch that would hurt
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Mint
