Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: Luigi Fortunati Newsgroups: sci.physics.research Subject: Re: Inertia and third principle Date: 24 Jun 2024 12:24:36 GMT Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Approved: hees@itp.uni-frankfurt.de (sci.physics.research) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fortunati.luigi@gmail.com X-Trace: news.dfncis.de lzjHLRFv/alcaCIvmaT3rA4+JW8r2hrQcO+lbMtXHlBdwksoEcsg3P0rDWqmMDft1+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:jZIIlE5M60GN1ehLIYsouu79fR8= sha256:YiYY36VHxy2aze6b4JyydVQ7U8iDBaoastdLEiPOkZ4= Bytes: 2913 Luigi Fortunati il 21/06/2024 21:16:01 ha scritto: > In my animation https://www.geogebra.org/m/gxqwmxah at the moment of the collision the F1 and F2 forces of action and reaction between the two bodies A and B are activated. > > Is it true that force F1 is the sum of the blue forces of the particles of body A and force F2 is the sum of the red forces of the particles of body B? > > Could the forces F1 and F2 exist if the blue and red forces of the particles of bodies A and B did not exist? > > Luigi Fortunati > > [[Mod. note -- At the moment of collision, the only impact forces are > those on the parts of the bodies which are in contact (labelled as points > A and B in your very nice animamation). These then propagate pressure > waves into the bodies, which apply forces on the rest of the bodies. > So, the small red and blue arrows which your (very nice!) animation > shows as being applied to each mass point of bodies A and B at the > moment of collision are wrong -- the actual forces are very non-uniform > across each body (as well as being highly time-dependent). > > Here's an article with actual data of this sort: > Ross, Patel, and Wenzel > "Vehicle Design and the Physics of Traffic Safety" > Physics Today vol 49 (Jan 2006), pages 49-54 > The /Physics Today/ article is behind a paywall, but as of a few minutes > ago google scholar says there's a free copy at > https://people.cas.uab.edu/~nordlund/Courses/PH201/Links/vol59no1p49_54.pdf > The article has two graphs showing velocity as a function of time for > various parts of cars during car crashes. You can clearly see how > different parts of a car have different velocity profiles, and hence > different accelerations. > > But, I think the answer to your first question may still be "yes". After > all, ultimately the net force on body A is the sum of all the forces on > A's individual mass points, and similarly for B. The net force on body A is the vector sum of the endless blue internal forces of its own particles (which push body A to the right) and the single external red force F2 (which pushes body A to the left). Luigi Fortunati