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Old 01-13-2006, 11:15 PM
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Pglasgow
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Default RE: Kinetic Pulse as Measure of Killing Power

Pglasgow

Now this is extremly interesting to me. It is really hard to argue a physically measured test.

Shooting aprojectile into a common medium at a common distance filling the channel and measuring the fill - this is how I understand it. Not much roomfor speculation.


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He found this wound channel volume to be proportional to the product of the kinetic energy and momentum of the projectile.[/blockquote]


I think I understand the principle momentum + energy ='s a channel. Volume of the channel then can be measured - makes sense

Close but more accurately, momentum x energy ='s a channel volume.


This does make a lot more sense to me, but then again that worries me a bit if I understand it or do I understand it because the list of projectiles in the order arranged looks about how would have arranded them off the top of my head.

Well, I started working on them in order by cartridge. I pretty much knew how they would turn out, except, the 7mm Mag was pretty much equivalent to the 30-06, which surprised me. Also, I wasn't for sure where the roundballs would fall in. Try this sabotloader. Just pick a cartridge or your favored ML load and try to guess where it will come in. I think you'll find that your hunch is corroborated by thekinetic pulse value. go to the link below for the online calculator.
http://www.xmission.com/~fractil/figure.cgi?massa=245&velocitya=1800&massb= &velocityb=

And go to this link for the complete description of the theory http://www.xmission.com/~fractil/math/kp.html

Have fun, Phil
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