Physics GCSE
Passenger safety and injury
What Passenger safety and injury means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Passenger safety and injury
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Reference: OCR
A large force acting on a passenger can cause injury such as whiplash, internal damage or fractures.
Topics that use Passenger safety and injury
- Physics on the move (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- braking distance
- Everyday transport speeds
- Experimental method
- force
- Order-of-magnitude estimation
- Rate equations and unit consistency
- Rate of change of velocity
- reaction time
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