I just heard a huge crash out in the warehouse. Apparently one of our guys was loading an 18 wheeler with a forklift, and the truck driver thought they were done loading and started to pull out of the dock, while the forklift was backing out of the truck. The forklift, fully loaded with a 2 meter high pallet of CRT monitors fell 1.25 meters out of the back of the truck onto the ground. They had to get an 18-wheeler tow truck to pick the forklift up. It was crazy. Thank goodness, no one was injured...If things had gone differently someone could have easily been killed. So the forklift weighs about 4000 kg, and the load another 800 kg. It fell 1.25 meters...so what was the total force that the impact made? Just curious.
It would have been a huge force then. F=ma If it stopped twice as fast it would have twice the force, 4 times faster, 4 times the force and so on.
It made a HUGE sound! I'm surprised it didn't crack the concrete, since it landed on it's rear counter weight.
It would create an impulse of roughly 24,000Ns. Divide that by however many seconds it took to stop and you get the force. If it took 0.01 seconds to stop, it would have ha a force of 2,400,000N That's about the same force as 24 big elephants standing still.
That was probably the sound of a dozen or more crt tubes imploding simutaneously as the yokes snapped the necks off the back. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
