I'm not arguing, but I am curious how you came up with those numbers.
Sure. Personal injury background when id gotten hurt had me use some force calculators to stress how painful accidents could be during settlement negotiations.
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Gotcha. I'm not 100% sure how that calculator works, but it looks like it accounts for more factors than I did. I love Physics though, it's very interesting.Sure. Personal injury background when id gotten hurt had me use some force calculators to stress how painful accidents could be during settlement negotiations.
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Once you get the force figured out it's a question of simple conversion factors to go from NM to Lb FT
There's lots of engineering spent figuring out how big those little plates were that seat belt bolts anchor to, as well as size of those bolts.
And I always thought my undergrad engineering times were going to be worthless after ending up in a different career path and doctorate.
I definitely miss engineering labs back in the day. Had I had the $$$ and gone to MIT like I wanted to I'd probably have had a VERY different career. But, they didn't give much in the way of a financial aid package, and, living costs in Boston were way high. Out of the question that had $0 coming in from parents to pay the way.
Was an article on one of the AM News shows this past Friday concerning a student at UBC (University of British Columbia, Canada) He lives in Alberta, where the cost of living is substantially lower in many respects, and commutes to the university. Only thing here is that he commutes by plane! Apparently the cost of living/renting in BC is twice as expensive as the cost of buying airline tickets, flying from Alberta to BC, attending classes, and then flying home again. He said he pays $1200 in ticket fees per month versus the $2400 or more per month that he would have to shell out for an apartment or room. The commute takes an hour, there and back, and apparently he uses that time for study and research. I do have to point out that he is not a full time student; needs only to complete a few remaining courses to graduate. Even so, this is some kind of serious thinking outside the box in an era where the cost of a post secondary education and the loans needed to pay for it, can put a student in debt prison for as much as half of their working life; more if the major was something like medicine. Kind of hard to make a living at anytime when you have the student loans office incessantly banging on your door or haunting you on the phone, demanding that you pay your debt, NOW.
