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Question 88

Engineers compare two seat belt designs, X and Y, in crash tests. In each test, a crash-test dummy of mass 60 kg travelling at 12 m/s is brought to rest by the seat belt. The stopping times are shown in the table.

Seat belt designStopping time
X0.080 s
Y0.20 s
a.

Calculate the magnitude of the average resultant force on the dummy for each seat belt design.

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b.

Explain which seat belt design would give a passenger the lower risk of injury.

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