Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Knock Back: The Final Chapter
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:54:36 +0200
>Let's assume a muzzle velocity of 1000m/s, such as you get with the M-16
>HBAR. Let's assume a bullet mass of 0.025Kg, which is reasonable for a
>5.5mm projectile made of solid steel.

You're a factor 10 wrong with all your projectile masses, Rat :) (not the
first time, BTW :) .025kg is 25 grams... It should go like this:

m1v1 = m2v2 or (0.0025Kg)(1000m/s) = (80Kg)(v2)

v2 = 0.03125m/s.

>So, 1 second after being hit by a slug from an M-16HBAR, I've moved about
>30 centimeters, assuming nothing else speeds me up or slows me down, and
>total transfer of momentum.

You would have moved around 3 1/8th centimeters :) That is, if the physicas
behind it is correct (I assume it is, at least under perfect, laboratory
conditions)


Gurth@******.nl - Gurth@***.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Dat wilt ik nou effe kwijt!
Geek Code v2.1: GS/AT/! -d+ H s:- !g p?(3) !au a>? w+(+++) v*(---) C+(++) U
P? !L !3 E? N++ K- W+ -po+(po) Y+ t(+) 5 !j R+(++)>+++$ tv+(++) b+@ D+(++)
B? e+ u+@ h! f--(?) !r(--)(*) n---->!n y? Unofficial Shadowrun Guru :)

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.