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In article <1992Aug31.195527.24174@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> babb@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com (Scott Babb) writes:
>Stupendous Man (demon@desire.wright.edu) wrote:
>: 
>: 	Train A is approaching at 20 mph.  (Ahhh, okay, 32 kph :).  Person B,
>: with tensile capacity X stand in the path of train A.  Assuming Train A
>: ignores
>: idiot B, with what force will train A pulverize person B?  Train A masses 40
>: metric tons.  Person B has standard human tensile strength and explodes like a
>: baked potato(e) when mashed.
>: 
>: :)
>: 
>: 	Engineering physics was never this fun.
>:                             
>: Brett                                                      
>
>40 metric tons is a mildly overloaded tractor-trailer!  I've seen many
>coal train cars that specify loaded weights in the 100 metric ton range.
>
>If idiot "B" were to stand in the path of one of our local coal trains,
>the he would be attempting to defy a mass more in the 10000 metric ton
>range.
>
>If you want to see *really* fun engineering physics, you should go
>to a coal fired power plant.  Our local plant has a forklift-type
>mechanism which grabs one of these 100 (+/-) metric ton coal cars
>off the tracks, lifts it up over the plant input hopper, dumps the
>coal into the hopper, and replaces the car on the tracks.  Impressive.
>
>--
>   Lockheed Sanders may disagree so these are solely the opinions of:
>             Scott L. Babb - babb@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
>              "We didn't inherit the Earth from our parents,
>                   we are borrowing it from our children."


WARNING! Leave Brett alone; He's an (in)famous
instigator of various flame wars! Just look how he
formulated his 'physics' problem...

Tony