blog #5

Well i got into a car crash this weekend. It sucks and for the whole time i never thought about physics. afterwards though, i looked at it and found a positive out of it. This could be another physics blog, and has everything to do with momentum. you see, i hit a range rover that had a much larger mass than my mazda. Although i was at a higher velocity and had more momemtum, the other guys car exerted a much larger impulse on my car because although impulse is force times time, its also the change in momentum and since my car went from 15mph to 0 in a split second, and his car barely rolled forward, a larger impulse was exerted on my car and therefore, destroying the front of my car. his car was hardly damaged, just a scuffed bumper because of the small impulse exerted on my car. this really sucks