Question

Upon impact, bicycle helmets compress, thus lowering the potentially dangerous acceleration experienced by the head. A new kind of helmet uses an airbag that deploys from a pouch worn around the rider's neck. In tests, a headform wearing the inflated airbag is dropped from rest onto a rigid platform; the speed just before impact is 6.00 m/s. Upon impact, the bag compresses its full 12.0 thickness, slowing the headform to rest.

Required:
Determine the acceleration of the head during this event, assuming it moves the entire 12.0 cm.

Answer 1

acceleration = -15.3g

Step-by-step explanation:

given data

speed = 6.00 m/s.

thickness = 12

moves the entire = 12.0 cm

solution

we will use here equation that is

v² - u² = 2 × a × s ........................1

here v = 0 is the final velocity and u = 6.0 m/s is initial velocity and s= 0.12 m is the distance covered and a is the acceleration

so we put here value and get acceleration

a =
`(v^2-u^2)/(2s)`

a =
`(0^2-6^2)/(2* 0.12)`

a = -150 m/s² ( negative sign means it is a deceleration )

and

acceleration in units of g

a =
`(-150)/(9.8)`

a = -15.3 g