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22067: Re: [MUD-Dev] Source data on Crossbow

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From: andy.wharton@ascentialsoftware.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 07:18:54 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:23:22 -0800 (PST)
daggers@iquest.net wrote:

> The recoil of the weapon equals the impact of the bullet,
> energywise.  If it doesn't knock down the shooter, it won't knock
> down the target.

I'm just about to start adding some real physics to my little toy
project.

I had assumed momentum was conserved when firing a gun, not that the
energy was split 50/50 between projectile and gun. Am I wrong?

Andy.
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