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February 22, 2002

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.



    • Q. On a football field, does it hurt more getting hit by a speedy little guy or a lumbering big guy?

    A. Assume a 320-pound lineman collides head-on with a 160-pound running back. How the bodies move depends on the direction of the superior momentum, figured at mass times velocity. So the little guy at half the mass needs to run fully twice as fast to stand up the big guy.


     
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