Bicycle safety equipment and its relation to physics

Effectiveness of Bicycle Safety Equipment Bicycles are used by all sorts of people, most commonly as transportation. A nice, relaxing bike ride on a crisp Sunday morning can quite easily turn into a panic ridden blood fest with ambulances and paramedics rushing around. This would be so if it weren't for bike safety equipment. Bicycle safety equipment comes in different shapes, sizes and types. The different sorts of equipment include: Gloves, elbow guards, body armour, …showed first 75 words of 1185 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…helmet is colliding with the ground. The use and manipulation of the equations: ÄP=Ft and P=mv can help to solve many issues relating to the effectiveness of helmets. From the above report, it can be gathered that to achieve a well-designed and effective helmet, materials which increase the time of collision such as polystyrene and foam are used in order to lower the overall force (F) exerted on the head inside the helmet.