How to Simulate a Car Crash Using Karate.
Speaker: Cars are full of safety technology, crumple zones, airbags and roll cages, all play their part in keeping us in one piece. But how do they work? The answer lies in what some people consider to be the most boring subject in the universe, Physics.
Speaker: In this experiment, we are going to stimulate the energy, that's generated in a car crash by using karate. Now, who says Physics is boring.Speaker: This is Andy and Dr. Penn, that's right, Dr. Penn. He is a lecturer in Sports Biomechanics at Loughborough University and a black belt in karate, which must make him the hardest swot in the world. This suit may look silly, but it's no near as stupid as these suits these boys are wearing today.
Speaker: Stupid boys.
Speaker: The suit uses the same principles as a car's crash absorbing technology. It's made up of incredebly dense foam, which absorbs the energy from any impacts the boys may suffer, making sure their bones and internal organs aren't damaged.
Speaker: Ideally.
Speaker: Dr. Penn and Andy have very different ideas, however.
Speaker: That was equivalent of being hit by 7 kilo bowling ball, traveling at 43 miles an hour. The suit is like your car bumper, is very good at absorbing energy, but the energy still has to go somewhere. With Nicky, it's sending him across the room.
Speaker: The energy is being transferred from Andy's foot into the suit, and finally into Nicky, and that's a wonderful example of the first law of Thermodynamics in everyday action.
Speaker: As the professor has already mentioned, the energy from these punches and kicks has to go somewhere, in the case of Ali it may have gone straight to his brain.
Speaker: Stupid.
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