Professionals do this with crash tests. You cannot do it with physics. There are too many unknowns. It is an engineering problem. After a head-on crash that appears to result in no damage, energy absorbing bumpers may, in fact, have suffered irreversible changes. The next crash may not be as pretty.Alexander Baine said:I am working on a science project, just in my spare time, and for this project I needed to know the amount of force it would take one car to damage another car, but the same model (so same weight, strength etc.) thanks for you help
"Damaged" is a bit of understatement here.Hesch said:If the lengths of the cars are compressed 2 m, the cars are damaged.
This is pretty much the same thing bcrowell said in post #7 and is also similar to what I said in post #6 when I talked about "keying" a car.Svein said:I expect the pressure at a given point of the car is more important than the force. I know (I have seen it) that it is possible to drive an awl through the bodywork by force of hand alone. The same force applied to a large object (say the hand itself) does almost no damage.
Sorry. Sloppy reading.Chestermiller said:This is pretty much the same thing bcrowell said in post #7 and is also similar to what I said in post #6 when I talked about "keying" a car.
The amount of Newtons required to damage a car varies depending on the type and size of the car. However, on average, it would take about 20,000 Newtons of force to cause significant damage to a car.
It is highly unlikely that a single Newton of force would cause any noticeable damage to a car. Cars are designed to withstand much greater forces, such as those experienced during collisions or rough driving conditions.
Again, this depends on the type and size of the car, as well as the location of the dent. On average, it would take about 5,000 Newtons of force to create a dent in a car's body.
Yes, the most vulnerable areas of a car are typically the front and rear bumpers, as well as the doors and fenders. These areas are more likely to sustain damage from forces, such as impacts or collisions.
Newtons are a unit of force commonly used in the scientific community, but they are not typically used to measure the force required to damage a car. Other units, such as pounds or kilograms, are more commonly used for this purpose.