G-Force Calculator

One g is 9.80665 metres per second squared, so a g-force is just an acceleration divided by that number. This takes four routes to it: a speed change over a distance, the load factor in a level banked turn, the relative centrifugal force of something spinning at a given radius and rpm, and the average deceleration of an impact after a fall. None of them needs a mass, because mass cancels out of every one. The braking and impact figures are averages over the stop, and a real peak runs higher.

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Speed Measured In
Distance Measured In
The speed you stop from, or the speed you reach from rest. The arithmetic is the same either way.
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Speed Measured In
The angle of bank in a level turn at constant altitude.
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Radius Measured In
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Height Measured In
Stopping Distance Measured In
How far the thing travels while it is being stopped: the crush of a helmet liner, the give of a mat, the dent in a car wing.
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