<<this is an instantaneous shock load and not a sustained load.> (Tony)
Quite so - a very high impulsive g could be measured at the tyre surface
when landing on a hard surface but due to the compliance of the tyre and
everything else (including the ground) only a correspondingly small mass
would experience this peak, so applying good old Newtons law , the product
(force) comes back to a manageable, but not trivial to calculate figure.
Might have to use your computer Ron if the slide rule doesn't object !.
A very famous mathematician invented a function (Dirac delta) to deal with
these situations which are quite common. e.g. from nail heads hitting
things,to laser energy pulses etc., which in effect by-passes the individual
infinities and zeros, and manipulates only the finite products e.g. energy.
But you need none of this if you have some measuring gear !
Graham C.
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