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Mon, 31 Aug 2009

10:52 – Physics on Monday morning

Roadworks be damned. As I was biking to the station this morning, I had a somewhat unpleasant encounter with a car. I'm not quite sure whose fault it was, the roadworks made the situation somewhat ambiguous, but we'll assume that since the girl driving the car was more shocked than I, it was probably her fault. Who cares about assigning blame anyway?

Looking back, it must have been rather amusing. I smashed into the car basically face first and managed to bite my lip and bruise my chin. Other than that, I only dented my ego slightly and the front wheel of my bike is not entirely straight anymore.

Assuming neither of us was travelling at anywhere near the speed of light, I estimate the amount of kinetic energy being turned into "damage" was on the order of 1700J. v² really is a bitch.

Bruises heal fast.

[ category: /work | 10 comments on this entry ]

Glad to hear you're more or less in one piece..Did you at least manage to dent the car in return? G

Posted by Bram at Mon Aug 31 16:06:37 2009
Bram: no. :-)

Posted by Philip Paeps at Mon Aug 31 16:51:48 2009
Ok, here go the front page headings:

- Infamous non-driver pays lip service to car.
- Philip facialises girl's front.
(Assuming you hit the front of the car, not the back (1), in which case you're probably at fault).
- Voluminous person carefully redacts 'm' from impact energy equation.
- Worlds collide: single bicycle-driving geek and car-driving girl. Blood at first sight.


(1) The reason I have chipped front teeth is a similar encounter of my face and a car's rear window 25 years ago.

Posted by Zombie at Mon Aug 31 22:27:29 2009
Ok, here go the front page headings:

- Infamous non-driver pays lip service to car.
- Philip facialises girl's front.
(Assuming you hit the front of the car, not the back (1), in which case you're probably at fault).
- Voluminous person carefully redacts 'm' from impact energy equation.
- Worlds collide: single bicycle-driving geek and car-driving girl. Blood at first sight.


(1) The reason I have chipped front teeth is a similar encounter of my face and a car's rear window 25 years ago.

Posted by Zombie at Mon Aug 31 22:29:02 2009
Ok, here go the front page headings:

- Infamous non-driver pays lip service to car.
- Philip facialises girl's front.
(Assuming you hit the front of the car, not the back (1), in which case you're probably at fault).
- Voluminous person carefully redacts 'm' from impact energy equation.
- Worlds collide: single bicycle-driving geek and car-driving girl. Blood at first sight.


(1) The reason I have chipped front teeth is a similar encounter of my face and a car's rear window 25 years ago.

Posted by Zombie at Mon Aug 31 22:39:14 2009
Ok, here go the front page headings:

- Infamous non-driver pays lip service to car.
- Philip facialises girl's front.
(Assuming you hit the front of the car, not the back (1), in which case you're probably at fault).
- Voluminous person carefully redacts 'm' from impact energy equation.
- Worlds collide: single bicycle-driving geek and car-driving girl. Blood at first sight.


(1) The reason I have chipped front teeth is a similar encounter of my face and a car's rear window 25 years ago.

Posted by Zombie at Mon Aug 31 23:35:59 2009
Ok, here go the front page headings:

- Infamous non-driver pays lip service to car.
- Philip facialises girl's front.
(Assuming you hit the front of the car, not the back (1), in which case you're probably at fault).
- Voluminous person carefully redacts 'm' from impact energy equation.
- Worlds collide: single bicycle-driving geek and car-driving girl. Blood at first sight.


(1) The reason I have chipped front teeth is a similar encounter of my face and a car's rear window 25 years ago.

Posted by Zombie at Wed Sep 2 01:51:29 2009
Ok, here go the front page headings:

- Infamous non-driver pays lip service to car.
- Philip facialises girl's front.
(Assuming you hit the front of the car, not the back (1), in which case you're probably at fault).
- Voluminous person carefully redacts 'm' from impact energy equation.
- Worlds collide: single bicycle-driving geek and car-driving girl. Blood at first sight.


(1) The reason I have chipped front teeth is a similar encounter of my face and a car's rear window 25 years ago.

Posted by Zombie at Wed Sep 2 21:06:34 2009
Well, I'm glad to hear you're still in one piece, more or less.

Posted by Bram at Thu Sep 3 18:29:43 2009
I have no idea what went wrong with comments earlier this week.  I fixed it over an open belkin54g access point at the pub. ;-)  Somy hazy encoding error.  Python is weird.

Posted by Philip Paeps at Thu Sep 3 23:32:11 2009

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