Measuring Forces, Impacts on Youth Football Helmets
AUG 21, 2012
First-ever study aims to help in developing improved child helmets.
Measuring Forces, Impacts on Youth Football Helmets
Get Inside the Science:
- Virgina Tech Biomedical Engineers Announce Child Football Helmet Study
- Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences
- Stefan M. Duma
Inside Science Buzzwords:
- Force -A push or pull on an object that can change its speed, direction or shape.
- Velocity - The speed of an object in relation to the direction it is moving.
- Acceleration - The rate at which an object speeds up or slows down; in other words, the change in an object’s velocity over time.
- Accelerometer - A device that measures an object’s acceleration.
- Biomedical engineer - a kind of engineer who applies engineering for the purpose of advancing medicine.
- Concussion - A type of traumatic brain injury in which the brain collides with the skull.
