[DIYbio] Re: Physics of recoil

On Mar 7, 7:35 pm, Simon Quellen Field <sfi...@scitoys.com> wrote:
> Did any of you take any physics classes in college?
> :-)

You apologized, then continued being snarky. A little smiley face
doesn't make insulting people okay.

But Simon is correct. The calculation is not carried out explicitly
in the Wikipedia article, but if you solve for velocity of the rifle
using conservation of momentum, and plug that velocity back into the
kinetic energy equation, you find that about 99.6% of the energy is in
the bullet.

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