Originally Posted by
pacificaslim
Sorry you crashed, but it is this kind of claim that shows how little people really know about the helmets they are wearing. That helmet made such a minor difference in the amount of energy being transmitted to your brain that it was almost surely not the difference between you being dead or alive. The helmet didn't even stay together!
Well my question for you is how much force did it take to ruin (completely crack) that helmet?
That would have been that much more force on my noggin.
Im not gonna go through the motions of calculating that force but to me it seems like it would be a significant relative to the net force that my noggin experienced, atleast within an order of magnitude.
Can you give me some numbers? Because if not than your claim is just as ignorant as mine.
Also the distance component of this particular application of force is very minimal, so it is best quantified as a point force. As we all know, W(energy)=FxD and the D in that equation is slim to nill so it is better to think about force.