Re: Handgun stopping power. The velocity myth

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1 total messages Started by E. Michael Smith Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:10

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Author: E. Michael Smith
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:10

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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.)

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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