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New! Understanding Car Crashes: When Physics Meets BiologyDVD | 2008 | color | sound | 16x9 | 24 minutes Why do some car crashes produce only minor injuries? How can a single crash of a car into a wall involve three separate collisions? Griff Jones, award-winning science teacher, returns to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Vehicle Research Center to answer these questions and to examine the laws of nature that determine what happens to the human body in a crash. Jones reviews levels of organization in the body and explains how body cavities house and protect major internal organs. Through creative experiments, he explores how the third collision can cause injuries to organs. He introduces the concepts of stress and strain. He demonstrates how shockwaves can damage tissue and what happens at the cellular level. Tools from the field of injury biomechanics, like biofidelic crash test dummies, help doctors and engineers determine what works to reduce injuries and deaths in crashes. The key to preventing injuries in any type of crash, whether it's in a race car or a family sedan, is to reduce forces on occupants. Extending impact time, keeping the occupant compartment intact, and tying occupants to the compartment are what keep people safe in car crashes when physics meets biology. 
Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic PhysicsVHS or DVD | 2000 | color | sound | 22 minutes | closed-captioned What happens to vehicles and their occupants in crashes is determined by science. "You can't argue with the laws of physics," says Griff Jones, award-winning high school physics teacher who goes behind the scenes at the Institute's Vehicle Research Center to explore the basic science behind car crashes. Using a series of vehicle maneuvers on a test track plus filmed results of vehicle crash tests, Jones explains in anything but lecture style the concept of inertia, the relationship between crash forces and inertia, momentum and impulse, and a lot more. From Paul G. Hewitt, the developer of the "Conceptual Physics" curriculum and author of the best selling text book by the same name: "The video "Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics" and accompanying teacher's guide are wonderful. The pacing is excellent, the coverage fascinating, and most importantly, the physics is correct. It's a first rate teaching package. I give it five stars!"
Teacher's guide supplement to Download PDF (1 MB file) or call 703/247-1500 to order copies. The lessons in this guide introduce students to the physics of car crashes with grade-level appropriate activities designed to meet national science standards. Guide includes teacher lesson plans and student activity sheets intended to supplement a high school physical science curriculum with hands-on activities that demonstrate basic physics principles and relate them to car crashes. 
Young Drivers: The High Risk YearsVHS or DVD | 2002 | color | sound | 16 minutes | closed-captioned Crash rates for young beginning drivers are much higher than for older drivers. This video includes 16 year-olds telling why they want their driver's licenses and what driving means to them. Parents of teenagers who died in crashes tell how the tragedies happened and how their families have been affected. The focus is on ways to reduce the crashes by limiting higher risk driving by beginning 16 year-olds. Graduated licensing laws on the books in most states are helping to do this, but parents should introduce their own restrictions — limit the hours teenagers are allowed to drive unsupervised and limit passengers (especially other teens) in the car with a teenage driver. Parents also have to make sure the beginning drivers in their families get plenty of supervision behind the wheel. These measures can save lives while teenagers learn to drive and become more mature. 
Advancing vehicle safety: the auto insurers' commitmentVHS only | revised 1999 | color | sound | 10 minutes The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Vehicle Research Center is a world-class facility for testing and other Research including in-depth investigations of real crashes. In this video, Researchers and engineers explain their work and tell how it helps to reduce crash deaths, injuries, and property damage. 
Kids and AirbagsVHS only | 1997 | color | sound | 5 1/2 minutes | closed-captioned Airbags are a big success. They've saved many lives, but they've also caused some serious injuries and deaths. Children and especially infants in rear-facing restraints are at risk. Using crash test footage and demonstrations of correct restraint use, this video tells how to protect youngsters in vehicles with airbags.
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