Recent content by senox13

Eh, more or less. I know the equations and I've done my fair share of tinkering.

Haha, okay, fair enough. But back to the topic, how possible is it to get a muzzle velocity of 100f/s from a one to two stage coilgun? Is this an unrealistic goal?

Okay, allow me to rephrase myself because you seem to be assuming that my grasp of physics is nonexistent. I would have assumed that when you saw the phrase "fraction of a second," you would have understood that the word instantly was hyperbole. In doing slightly further research on...

Instantantly, the coil should only be active for a fraction of a second. As for distance, as far as it'll go after leaving the coil or coils.

Okay, that was helpful, but what I'm trying to figure out is more of how much magnetic force I need to accelerate a slug of a certain mass to a certain speed. I assume there's an equation for this, but I have had little luck finding it with google.

Just what the title says, how do I calculate the force, in Newtons, that an electromagnet would have on an object?