Re:A First Look at America's Supergun
by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 28, 2016 @06:02PM
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Your comment seems to be confusing momentum (m * v) and kinetic energy (m * v * v).
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Re:A First Look at America's Supergun
by lobster_johnson on Saturday May 28, 2016 @06:14PM
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I'm not confusing anything, but I wasn't trying to be scientifially rigorous, either. By "energy of the momentum" I was referring, admittedly imprecisely, to the fact that the kinetic energy is a function of the momentum. Or, to be precise, E_k=p^2/2m. At least as I understand it.