[alfa] Re: moose hits

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:50 PM +0000 11/8/03, alfa-digest wrote:
> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 10:47:31 EST
> From: DickBevins@domain.elided
> Subject: [alfa] Re: moose hits
>
> The lore here in Maine is that the moose, having had its legs knocked out
> from under it by the car bumper, sort of rolls across the hood and directly
> through the windshield. Force equalling mass times velocity, the result isn't
> pretty.
I hate to be the nerd who posts this, but Force = mass x 
acceleration.  Momentum = mass x velocity.  (So it's also valid to 
say that Force = [change in momentum with respect to time].)

As for Alfa content, I actually credit the USA bumper on the GTV-6 
with saving my ass when I hit a deer at ~70mph.  Not because the 
bumpers are rated for 5mph, but because they stick out so far--the 
big bumper knocked the animals legs out from under it, but rather 
than falling on the hood and coming through the windshield as might 
have happened with a shorter bumper, it fell more into the 
grille/very front of the hood, and the change in momentum that was 
imparted to it by said parts of the GTV-6 sent it flying into the air 
at about a 45 degree angle from the ground.  (It's good thing that 
there wasn't any oncoming traffic, because it hit the ground in the 
other lane of the road before tumbling across someone's lawn and 
almost hitting their house.)

Joe
'82 GTV-6
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