Speaker
Mike Florek
(Roanoke County Public Schools)
Description
Football players experience repeated impacts to their bodies and heads. Football helmets are designed to reduce the damaging effects of impacts. In this project, students apply the concept of impulse to design and test padding systems constructed from repurposed packing materials. Students use accelerometers to measure the overall peak acceleration and rotational velocity, then apply those values to impact criterion formulas.
Primary author
Mike Florek
(Roanoke County Public Schools)
