Impulse-Momentum: Consider Two Less-Than-Desirable Options

question 30

Multiple Choice

Impulse-momentum: Consider two less-than-desirable options. In the first you are driving 50 km/h and crash head-on into an identical car also going 50km/h. In the second option you are driving 50 km/h and crash head-on into a stationary brick wall. In neither case does your car bounce off the thing it hits, and the collision time is the same in both cases. Which of these two situations would result in the greatest impact force?

• A) hitting the other car
• B) hitting the brick wall
• C) The force would be the same in both cases.
• D) We cannot answer this question without more information.
• E) None of these is true.

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