MadSci Network: Biophysics
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Subject: how does F= m*a apply to two skydivers colliding?

Date: Thu Jan 30 17:34:36 2003
Posted by sal celi
Grade level: 7-9 School: la cima middle school
City: tucson State/Province: az Country: usa
Area of science: Biophysics
ID: 1043966076.Bp
Message:

Dana Bowman from the Army's Golden Knights explained how he collided with a fellow parachutist and the arm of the other severed both his legs. can we apply newton's law to see how this was possible? we know that they each were travelling at 150 mph and could possibly guess at the mass of the arm that did the severing. any suggestions?

[note added by MadSci Admin: here is a good URL that talks about the incident itself.]


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