Why does high speed collisions like falling cause more damage?

Question

I’m kinda confused, obviously it’s because there is more force involved in the collision compared to a slow speed collision, but why? It’s just the way the universe works, or what?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Each molecular bond, each structure, everything really has an amount of give before it breaks. Once you cross an energy threshold to break that part, that’s it.

There is more energy in a high speed collision, but the same total amount of structure to handle it. So… more parts of the whole breaks when more energy is involved. That’s pretty much it.