Re: GEV and Grav Vehicles

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:26:54 +0000 (GMT), Tom Anderson
<thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:

>so, for a constant projectile energy and vehicle weight, the recoil
>produced by a gun is proportional to the square root of its mass. thus,
if
>we use a smaller round, we get less recoil *even though we are putting
the
>same amount of energy into it*. we are also more power efficient, as
less
>energy is going into recoil.

THANK YOU!!! This is what I was getting at in my previous posts. You can
impart a fair amount of energy with a very small mass, and get very
little
recoil in return. Not zero recoil, but little recoil. 

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@interlog.com
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