Chapter+3,+Section+2

What do you see: I see two people getting into a car crash, one has a seat belt, the other doesn't. The one who doesn't went flying out of the car into the pond.

What do you think now:

Physics to go

1. A. For the baseball, the mitt doesn't have much room to bend for the ball. If the ball is caught in the netting of the mitt, then it does have a little room to bend. But when it is caught in the palm, the force is stopped with not too much stopping distance.

B. When you jump from a high height and keep your legs straight, there is a greater chance that the bones in your legs would break because it is pure force and pressure put on your legs. If you bend your legs, you have more stopping distance which can decrease the force. Sort of like a spring.

C. When bungee jumping, the bungee stretches out very far, which greatly increase the stopping distance.

D. A wrestler's mat, it has a bit of foam, but it is thick enough to stop the wrestler from injury because the energy created while wrestling isn't great enough that it would require a large stopping distance.