The Negative Impact Of The Crumple Zones

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Cars is are our main transportation way. Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes every year, on average 3,287 deaths per day around the world.Crumple zones were first invented by Mercedes in 1952.

Crumple zones use Isaac Newton’s first and second law the first law states: A body stays at rest and a body stays at motion unless something is acted on it from the outside. Newton’s second law states force equals mass times acceleration (f=ma). The crumple zone is there to increase the time it takes a care to stop after being hit by another object, the crumple zones cause the force (f) to spread over time to reduce the impact that the person feels. A crumple zone works by converting energy into essentially sound and thermal energy and leaving

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