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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Handgun stopping power. The velocity myth
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.200903.10923@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:10:59 GMT
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- In article <19611@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
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- #In article <MAILQUEUE-101.930125134913.352@english.as.ua.edu> DHORTON@ENGLISH.AS.UA.EDU (David A. Horton) writes:
- ##Actually, to be more specific, I think we can think of it
- ##as a bullets momentum density (the momentum of a bullet divided by
- ##its frontal area), and not bullet "energy".
- ##Anyone have anything to add??
- #
- #(a) Velocity is a vector (i.e. directed) quantity as is momentum; what
- #people really should be using the the magnitude of the momentum, or
- #mass * speed. (Speed is the magnitude of the velocity.)
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- Um, I, for one, think velocity is far more important than speed ...
- If the bullet is doing MACH 2 away from me it isn't much threat ;-)
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