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I'm trying to find out the force on a collision that happened to me recently, nothing serious but the lady went away in the ambulance for what I believe wasn't that much force exerted on her at all.
Both vehicles were at a stationary position about 2.5 meters away from each other. The second vehicle (mine) having a curb weight of 1200 kg travels to a peak velocity of about 2.23 m/s and strikes the first car on the bottom part of the bumper on the left side when that vehicle weighs in at about 2600 kg.
Now I understand that the car probably took most of the force but I want to figure out what the max force was and compare it to a real world example for insurance to investigate. I figured I would use an impact force formula like:
F= m*(vf-vi)/(tf-ti)
But wasn't sure if that was the proper approach. With that I was able to get about 1300 N of force
Forgot to mention it took about 2 seconds for me to hit her, maybe not even
Both vehicles were at a stationary position about 2.5 meters away from each other. The second vehicle (mine) having a curb weight of 1200 kg travels to a peak velocity of about 2.23 m/s and strikes the first car on the bottom part of the bumper on the left side when that vehicle weighs in at about 2600 kg.
Now I understand that the car probably took most of the force but I want to figure out what the max force was and compare it to a real world example for insurance to investigate. I figured I would use an impact force formula like:
F= m*(vf-vi)/(tf-ti)
But wasn't sure if that was the proper approach. With that I was able to get about 1300 N of force
Forgot to mention it took about 2 seconds for me to hit her, maybe not even
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