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Ballistics, 2nd Edition
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Ballistics, 2nd Edition

by Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
608 pages
21h 36m
English
CRC Press
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12 Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition
We need to recall from dynamics that the kinetic energy of the projectile can be written as
K.E.
projectile
pm
=
1
2
2
mV
(2.21)
where V
m
is the muzzle velocity. If we assume that all of the energy of the gas is converted
with no losses into kinetic energy of the projectile, then we can use Equation 2.15 to state that
K.E. =
projectile
W
(2.22)
We can make use of Equations 2.20 and 2.21 to write this as
1
21
2
1
11
mV
mRTl
lL l
i
pm
g
=
+−
−−
()
()
()
()
[(
)]
γ
γγ
γ
(2.23)
This is an important result as it relates muzzle velocity to the properties and amount of the
gas used, the mass of the projectile, and includes ...
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