Arthur P: That's quite a claim. Care to back it up with some calculations. How much is the lions share and how did you calculate it?

A rectangle has 2 parameters. Its length and its width. From these 2 parameters you can calculate area and perimeter. Area = length x width. Perimeter = 2 x (length + width). So with regard to a rectangle which is more important area or perimeter? To me area and perimeter are just 2 different things. One is square feet and the other is lineal feet. It doesn't make sense to say one is more important than the other but according to the logic of Arthur and Straightarrow, AREA is defininately more imporant than PERIMETER. Why? Because when you increase the rectangles length and/or width "the percentage increase in perimeter is very small compared to the percentage increase in area." Now oviously I have substitued perimeter and area for ke and momentum but the analogy is pretty clear. If it makes sense to you that AREA is more important than PERIMETER then I guess you will also conclude that MOMENTUM which is POUND-SECONDS is more important than KE which is FOOT-POUNDS. This logic is just simply wrong! Momentum and ke are simply mathmatical results of the paramters velocity and mass, just like area and perimeter are simply mathmatical results of the parameters length and width. BTW, nobody answered why KE isn't more important because as you increase draw weight the percentage increase in KE is greater than the percentage increase in momentum. Or how is it that if we keep the velocity equal they both increase at the same rate?

There I go again. I know this isn't going anywhere but I can't help myself. Please moderators, save me from myself and lock this thread!!!!!