LBR,

Please consider,

How will a heavy pendulum swing in comparison to a light pendulum.

Example,

You mentioned bows in a previous post, so I will use that to try and make my point.

When I use carbon on a bow I use it directly on the back (tension side) of the bow. By using carbon in the above mannor it allows me to build a bow with a limb that is thinner from belly to back, than if I did not use carbon or sandwiched the carbon between other laminates of the limb.

The thinner limb recovers quicker because the limb has less virtual mass. A quicker recovering limb translates into greater arrow speed.

I can build the thinner limb due to the properties of carbon, but the laws of physics that dictates the bottom line, is that the limb has less virtualmass.

In terms of a carbon arrow;

Less carbon gives greater spine. If that carbon arrow still bends or deflects the same amount as that great big wooden arrow, the way it clears the window will be dictated by amount of bend and length of arrow. I will concede it may be possible that down range it may come out of the bending nodes (parodox) sooner.

Does the above make sense?