RE: [DL] Re: Colt Walker

["Glenn Connot" <glennconnot@hotmail.com>]

>hence the
>velocity-squared thingy in the equations we're not using...)
Exactly :P

Its not a direct ratio by ANY means, and I'll give you that you came up with 
a much more complete answer than mine.  I hadn't read yours when I 
responded, so I wasn't aware that the subject had been covered.

Glenn
(ps.  I say that a .50 slug thrown would hurt somethin fierce.  It'd be like 
chucking a rock, a very sharp-pointed, dense rock) :)
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>From: "Phalen, Pat" <Pat.Phalen@infores.com>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: DD <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Subject: RE: [DL] Re: Colt Walker
>Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 06:14:36 -0600
>
> >Here's how to think of it, in the physics sense (but with no equations 
>:).
>
>
>OK...
>
> >A big bullet travelling slow will carry just as much energy as a
> >small bullet travelling fast.
>
>But, I thought we were thinking using Physics? ;)
>To give an extreme example, according to this if I threw a .50 cal, it 
>would
>carry the same energy as a .22 shot from a gun?
>
>Sorry, but energy relies *more* on velocity than mass (hence the
>velocity-squared thingy in the equations we're not using...)
>
>Patrick
>
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