Originally Posted by
Johnny
ultimately the biggest force the splitter will encounter is the time you mow down a domestic house cat on the way home one evening
so ... lets say a domestic cat weighs 8 lbs and is traveling at 6mph towards you ... and you car weighs 3000lbs and is doing 60mph towards the cat. ...... now assuming the cat gets hit by the centre of the splitter straight on, then the resulting energy produced from the collision is equal to 1572 Joules. If the cats head is cleanly severed that amount of engery will launch the cats head down the road for about 15686 feet with an initial speed of 214mph
all in all enough energy to power a light bulb for 26 seconds
IF, we convert this engery into stopping force, the splitter needs to be able to hold 94lbs .. which is 42kg
so I say ... 42kg !!!!