[MR] Heavy Helms and inertia

[Towey, Brian]

You mean your car bounced off a deer and not vice-versa?  Wow!  I'd like to
have seen that.

-BT

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dave Montuori [SMTP:damont at wolfstar.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, September 29, 2001 7:02 AM
> To:	Merry Rose
> Subject:	RE: [MR] Heavy Helms and inertia
> 
> 
> Scripsit Charles Fleming:
> > I used the example of equal sized billiard balls, but the equality isn't
> > necessary for momentum transfer.  Compare, for example, the effects of
> > swinging a golf club against a golf ball compared with swinging the same
> > club against a keg of beer.  Or, crashing your car into a bicycle vs.
> > crashing your car into a cement mixer.  The biggest mass always wins.
> 
> Would that it were that simple. Consider crashing your car into a deer.
> The car has considerably bigger mass -- and still loses. (Though the deer
> may not win either.) The basic idea is a sound starting point.
> 
> Evan (been there, sigh)
> 
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