Recent content by Welbyt

Thanks for the information- I also have a relatively extensive knowledge on military explosives (was a combat engineer), so it was just a matter of trying to apply my limited knowledge of projectile motion to what I already knew. Appreciate the assistance, went ahead and started on another...

We do have the cross sectional area (approximate, as it is highly irregular), but I have been unable to find any other data online, I've been looking for about a month and have found nothing of particular use. This was my last hope for a solution that I would be able to work out, given my...

What we're trying to do is determine the qty of explosives used. We have reason to believe that it was a non-shaped charge, likely a simple blast charge. However, no witnesses saw the explosion, and the debris is highly irregular due to the location of the blast. so, it is looking like we're...

I'm doing a project for my job, and am currently stuck with a situation that I'm unsure of how to proceed. Note: not homework. The situation is that I have an object of approximately 100kg, which was thrown a horizontal distance of 16m from it's original position by an explosion. We've...