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The onset rate in this figure is arbitrary at best. For an _impact_ of a short duration, the peak and average onset rate become increasingly different as the duration diminishes.

Additionally, what would be vastly more informative for the general audience, is the total change of velocity.

For example, people are interested in getting a (how should I describe it as a non-English speaker?) general appreciation, overview, Touch, or some other mental framework, so that they can watch sports or documents, and immediately appreciate the hardship of a particular "crash" or "bump" in a consistent manner.

Robert Kubica took an outrageous lateral hit (yellow in this graph) in Montreal, and walked away. Ralf Schumacher took a rear hit (red) that was considerably smaller, and was out of racing for a long time. We have reams of examples from the Military, from Motor Sports, and from physiological studies.

Now, this graph is a nice start. But so much more _information_ and _insight_ could be put in a similar size and similar reader level graph.

And yes, "why don't you do it yourself"? I am quite old, slow, and also today incapable of doing precise work. My only hope is that some young and vigorous persons become inspired by my thoughts. That's all I have left.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.238.2.72 (talk) 21:52, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The link to the source is currently dead and the URL alone does not give enough information to find a substitute with certainty. Perhaps R.V. Brulle, "Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers"?

147.32.4.13 (talk) 14:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]