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gamblore99
11-23-2005, 07:20 PM
since posting about physics is cool today, and I have wondered this for a while.

It is a punching fight. One guy has more momentum, the other guy has more energy but has lower momentum in his punches. Whose punch will hurt more?
diebitter
11-23-2005, 07:21 PM
For pity's sake, SMP!

PLEASE!
Wake up CALL
11-23-2005, 07:25 PM
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Whose punch will hurt more?


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Only the punch that strikes you, there is no proof for sympathetic pain.
MonkeeMan
11-23-2005, 07:28 PM
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since posting about physics is cool today, and I have wondered this for a while.

It is a punching fight. One guy has more momentum, the other guy has more energy but has lower momentum in his punches. Whose punch will hurt more?

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If by "lower" you mean "in the nuts", yea, that one.
Josh W
11-23-2005, 07:42 PM
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since posting about physics is cool today, and I have wondered this for a while.

It is a punching fight. One guy has more momentum, the other guy has more energy but has lower momentum in his punches. Whose punch will hurt more?

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"Hurt" depends more on force, or dP/dt. The greater momentum will 'hurt' more.


Josh
ihardlyknowher
11-23-2005, 08:05 PM
Don't different methods of punching transfer different amounts of energy to the target? Thus, there is insufficient information to answer this.