![]() Safety belts areĭesigned to stop passengers becoming projectile inside the car by restraining them Crumble zones are mini rigid structures at the front and back of the vehicle, whichĪre designed to absorb the energy and collapse slowly on impact. Work in concert to increase the driver’s survivability.Ī. Explain the physics of a car crash and how the crumble zone, safety belt, and air bag.And our percent error between the calculated and the measured We were able to find the actually values using the equations for That the area under the graph of the force is the impulse. Also, to notice the change in forces, known as impulse. The purpose of the lab was to illustrate the difference between elastic and inelasticĬollisions using data. The other source of error would be caused by human error. The track also wasn’t attached to the table, so the track would slide on Our main source of error came from the cartįalling off the track constantly. The percentage didn’t go over three percent. And the collision spot with nothing in the way was also a very low error That one was hard to measure because the cart The airbag’s collision error was around five percent. The percentage didn’t even go over two percent. Spring’s error percentage was extremely low as well. ![]() The heavier spring’s error percentage was very low. We calculated the error percentage using the equation. This is because the total force in the collision without the airbag is dispersed in only a fraction ofĪ second without anything to dampen the impact. Max force on the no airbag is significantly higher and, in some trials, more than double the force. Finally, when we compare the airbag trials with the no airbag trials, we can see that the Hypothesis we made was correct because the airbag was the best at handling forces in theĬollision. Should be no force applied on the cart for it to have negative velocity. The final two test are inelastic collisions because there Will not compress as much which means that the duration of the collision will be shorter, andįorce will not be absorbed as much. Max force and initial velocity is higher in the stronger spring. When we compare the weak spring to the strong spring we can see that the ratio of the There should be a similarity to the impulse measured and the impulse calcuated with theįormula. This made sense because the weak spring can increase the duration of the collision due to itsĪbility to compress more before pushing the cart back. We noticed that the weak spring had the lowest max force. The first two tests are elastic collisions because The data table shows the results ofĪll four tests and the number of trials for each (In order: Weak Spring, Strong Spring, Airbag, No There are two types of collisions, elastic and inelastic. Vi (m/s) Vf (m/s) ∆p (kg m/s) F∆t (Ns) % diff Max Force (N) To see how accurate the change in momentum from the calculated and the measured, theĮrror percentage formula can acquire that. In an inelastic collision, the object will have a final velocity of zero due to the object In an elastic collision, the two objects bounce off of each other, which means there is aĬhange in momentum and the initial and final velocity are essentially the same in magnitude. Integral, or by finding the area under the curve. The impulse can be calculated by taking the ![]() Light one), an air bag, and nothing, or a wall. To test the different types of collisions, there will be two different springs (a heavy and The values will be tested by calculations andįormulas. Then be testes to see how accurate they are. The impact will be measured and recorded into a graph. The initial and final velocity, as well as the force of ![]() Of a force over time is equal to momentum. Instead of evaluating force of motion with F=ma, momentum can be used. Objective(s): Gain a better understanding of elastic and inelastic collisions and the relationshipīetween the integral of force overtime and impulse. Warning: TT: undefined function: 32 University of Massachusetts - Lowell Impulse and Momentum in Collisions Physics 1 (PHYS.1410) Student, Lab Partner Instructor Gabrielle Tubman, Doanna Nguyen Yousef Izadi December 3th, 2019 ![]()
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