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Old 26th October 2008, 05:05 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by parky76 View Post
dude. i majored in geography. even I remember from high school physics that an object's mass (and therefore force upon impact) increases with speed.

Well, not quite. Rest mass is a constant, but the momentum will change with speed.

Unless you were talking about relativistic mass...



ETA: Curses, dtugg beat me to it.
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