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Collsion Course

By Carmen Renee

Friday, October 24, 2008

RUFUS ALEXANDER OKLAHOMA LINEBACKER Two large bodies, moving at fast speeds, collide head-on. If that sounds like a demolition derby, it's because it is. "Newton's Second Law" is how Nebraska prof Dr. Tim Gay, author of The Physics of Football, prefers to see it. "Force equals mass times acceleration." But when Alexander cracks a tailback, our physicists say it's similar to the force generated by one car ramming another's grill at 40 mph, except instead of the target being belted safely in a ve ...

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