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How do you calculate the forces experenced upon a paintball when being fired through the barrel of a paintball gun?
Barrel lenght being 12"
final velocity being 100m/s^2
Barrel lenght being 12"
final velocity being 100m/s^2
How do you calculate the forces experenced upon a paintball when being fired through the barrel of a paintball gun?
Barrel lenght being 12"
final velocity being 100m/s^2
You would need to know the mass of the paint ball. You can also get its kinetic energy using the formula for kinetic energy.
[tex]KE=\frac{1}{2}[/tex][tex]mv^{2}[/tex]
And KE = Work = Fs
So then you would need to know the distance on which the force works. So you either need to know the time interval or the distance. I assume that the bullet isn't being accelerated througout the entire barrel, but I'm not a weapon expert.
How would you set up an equation that takes care of that?If you want a more advanced approximation then you can consider the CO2 to be an adiabatically expanding ideal gas and assume that no CO2 leaks around the ball in the barrel. That should give you a force that varies down the barrel length in a reasonable manner.