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Ev Archive for February 2001
1152 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:51:05 2001

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Re: Battery Acid and Airbags



>> P.S.  Someone check my math,  I was trying to figure out how many G's it
>> would be to go from 60 mph to zero in 1.5 feet.  I keep coming up with
>> somewhere close to 7,000 Gs, that can't be right. 
>
>I get -80.203 Gs. If you're interested in my math, you can find it
>below...


My thanks to everyone that responded.  I knew I was figuring this wrong, but
I couldn't remember the equation.

Wow, 80 G's....squish.