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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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342 Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition
11.2 Dynamic Imbalance
The diagram of Figure 10.2 represents the most common case of a projectile asymmetry, a
dynamic imbalance. In this case, a lateral throwoff effect as described in Section 11.1 will
result as the projectile leaves the muzzle of the gun and there will also be signicant ight
dynamic effects as the projectile moves downrange. Usually, this mass asymmetry is small
and can be treated as a small amount of mass removed from or added to a projectile at a
point dened by a radial set of coordinates from the CG. We shall use the former approach
following the development o
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