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Phyyyyyyyysics. PHYSICS! Physicphysicphysicphysicphysicphysics Physics!

Yup. In a fucking nutshell.
MFW reading the comments.

ask a physics major anything

How many swags do you have?

5 kilograms

Wanna do my homework for me?

Haha maybe i can help :)

A Ferrari Maranello passes a ford Pinto on the 401. The Maranello is constantly accelerating at aM. The Pinto driver accelerates at a P the instant she sees the Ferrari Pass by. At the instant the two cars pass by each other, their speeds are vM, and vP, and vM>vP. At what time t=f(vm, vp, am, ap) will the pinto catch the maranello?

so at first the marnello is behind the pinto, then the pinto accelerates and passes the marnello?

yep, have to find out when that happens.

ok here's what i have:
since they will have travelled the same distance (x) from the time the maranello passed the pinto to when the time the pinto catches up, you can set the two equal to each other. The maranello's distance is x=(vm)t+((am)t^2)/2
The pinto's distance is x=(vp)t+((ap)t^2)/2
Set the two x's equal to each other and solve for t
I got t=2(vm-vp)/(ap-am)

Ah, thought it was something along those lines but I am always just off on one aspect of it that fucks everything up. Thanks!

i hope that's right haha i haven't done kinematics like this in years :) and you're welcome

I've gathered that the pintos acceleration is larger than the Maranello, and have made a graph(v/t) with vm starting over vp and the lines crossing about half way

strictly speaking its saying its not the speed that kills you its the force but in laymans terms i supose you would be right

it's the force, which is the change in momentum (time derivatve) so if you have a large change in momentum over a small period of time, i.e. crashing into the ground, thats what kills you.

like here

Reminds me of the time when Spiderman killed Gwen Stacy because his web wasn't elastic enough, so the sharp change of momentum exerted a huge force on her, snapping her neck.

And Spidey had to go and blame it on Green Goblin.

Yes, JUST YES!

Fucking*

What's this from?

The BBC series Sherlock

NO! I've just gotten over it! Why did you bring it back?

i'm sorry

You may be sorry, but you're not forgiven.

Understanding the post makes me a physicist?

No, it's the people trying to show off basic physics knowledge.

^this.

Can't honestly say I'm familiar with what you mean

How Swedish are you really? "It's not the speed that kills you, it's the force."

That's a quote from Peter Solberg.

Not Swedish enough, I'd say. I'm just a polyglot living in the States.