Monthly Archives: September 2010

Paintball in the Lab

2 September 2010

A paintball hits a cardboard target, played back at 1/67 of its actual speed. Katherine Nash Scafide, who is studying nursing with a specialty in forensics, recruited me to help her measure the impact force of a paintball. Her work focuses on the bruising, but for my part we didn’t use any human targets. We [...]

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