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Or to put it another way, could you catch your child if they had fallen 50m (about 7 storeys)? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fall+50m http://www.wolfram
by gridspy 17y ago
Or to put it another way, could you catch your child if they had fallen 50m (about 7 storeys)?
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fall+50m http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fall+50m
At the end of that fall, they would be travelling 70mph, as fast as they are travelling in a car. If you were both travelling in a car, and you suddenly stopped, they would continue travelling at that speed.
- Retric 17y agoTrying to hold your child in an accident is not going to work. However the actual situation would more closely resemble trying to catch your child from that height while standing on a trampoline. In an accident you don't instantly decelerate so the difference in speeds between you and what you are holding is not as severe as the absolute speed difference.