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From: Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt <hhs@cbs.dtu.dk>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:50:23 +0100 (MET)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Bobby Martin wrote:
> From: Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net>
> delta v of target = velocity of bullet * mass of bullet / (mass of
> target + mass of bullet)
> No matter how much energy is dissipated as internal damage, noise,
> heat, etc.
Remember that heat in fact is also momentum, on another scale;
vibration, rotation and velocity of molecules. I don't know how much
of the momentum is absorbed by frictional heat, however (it might be
so small it does not matter in the big picture).
> Conservation of energy is not very important in determining how
> much the target will move; conservation of momentum, on what part
> of the target the collision takes place, and biological factors
> (muscles going limp, etc.) are much more important.
I agree.
Hans Henrik Stærfeldt | bombman@diku.dk | work: hhs@cbs.dtu.dk |
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