Saturday, October 23, 2004

momentum's a bitch part 2

Follow up J.Lo Problem:

How much pressure was exerted on Jenny from the block's stiletto Manolo Blahnik's if 125 lbs of ass is riding on them, and the radius of her heel is 0.10 meters??

Well...pressure is equal to force over area.

P=F/A

We are estimating J.Lo's weight at 125 lbs, so her weight in kg's is 57 kg. We also know that the force of J.Lo is 559 N, from the previous problem. We can also find the area from the radius of her stiletto heel, which is 0.10 m. Therefore the area, being pi*r^2, is equal to 0.0314m. Now plug and chug:

P= 559N/0.0314m = 1.8 x 10^4 pascals.

Good god that's a lot of pascals. So nearly 18,000 pascals of pressure are being sustained on those itty bitty stiletto heels on J.Lo's corn infested feet. If J.Lo had done the math, perhaps she would have been spared from falling down and going BOOM on MTv that fateful day.

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