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If two cars his head on and one is going 50 mph and the other is going 50 mph is the impact 100mph or 50 mph?
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∙ 13y ago
"100"
The time it takes for the impact to occur is equal to that of a single car hitting a wall at 100mph (in other words the distance between the two objects decreases at the same rate), but if both cars have the same mass the energy dispersed is equal between both cars so the equation would be F=MV/2 F being the force of the crash, which is equal to the mass of the two vehicles times the velocity of the vehicles divided by 2. This means that the impact is the same as one car absorbing the force of a 50mph crash....so the answer is 50mph
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