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Harry wrote:
Loogypicker wrote:
On Jan 12, 8:24 am, John H wrote:


Explosions are a factor not in the equation. But large mass wins in
most
every crash. My favorite professor in engineering school always had
great
questions on his tests. One of the test quesstions in Dynamics, as
far as I
can remember the question, was a 3500# VW microbus loaded with
hippies doing
75 mph gets in a non-elastic collision and no parts are lost with an
80,000#
semi doing 35. What is the final speed, and the velocity changes.
The VW
has a 105 mph change in velocity and the truck loses 5 mph.
Loogy needs to read, "Run Silent, Run Deep". Although it's fiction, it
does give a decent accounting of the torpedo problems we had in the
Pacific against the Japanese. Torpedos without an explosion don't give
*nearly* the bang for the buck.

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John, are you really trying to say that the mass is the only factor
and that the velocity of that mass doesn't do anything??? Really?



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