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<blockquote data-quote="David Fisher" data-source="post: 697920" data-attributes="member: 54446"><p>"Another definition of "Overbore" uses something called "Ballistic Efficiency," which is the percentage of the chemical energy stored in the powder charge which gets converted to kinetic energy in the bullet (as opposed to heat, noise, and recoil)."</p><p></p><p>Correct me if I have this wrong - my last physics course was centuries ago - but isn't the recoil the conservation of momentum effect of accelerating the bullet and thus not at all a waste of energy?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David Fisher, post: 697920, member: 54446"] "Another definition of “Overbore” uses something called “Ballistic Efficiency,” which is the percentage of the chemical energy stored in the powder charge which gets converted to kinetic energy in the bullet (as opposed to heat, noise, and recoil)." Correct me if I have this wrong - my last physics course was centuries ago - but isn't the recoil the conservation of momentum effect of accelerating the bullet and thus not at all a waste of energy? [/QUOTE]
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