Re:Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing...
by robotresearcher on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:49PM
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The badness might be proportional to the energy being transferred through your head, which is simply proportional to the height you fell before stopping suddenly.
The square root in the velocity calculation goes away since
E_k = 1/2 MV^2
so the energy dispersed hitting the ground from a 10 inch fall is exactly 10x as bad as a 1 inch fall.
Of course the actual damage done by that energy transferred through your head will be some complex function due to bone breakage and cell tearing thresholds, etc. But as a first approximation of suck, I'd go with this simple linear model.
The square root in the velocity calculation goes away since
E_k = 1/2 MV^2
so the energy dispersed hitting the ground from a 10 inch fall is exactly 10x as bad as a 1 inch fall.
Of course the actual damage done by that energy transferred through your head will be some complex function due to bone breakage and cell tearing thresholds, etc. But as a first approximation of suck, I'd go with this simple linear model.