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Very preliminary thoughts on a recoil reducing gun
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[QUOTE="mfb, post: 6508044, member: 405866"] Recoil is not a problem of energy, it's a problem of momentum. Total momentum is conserved. If the bullet is fired in one direction the gun will recoil in the other. No mechanism internal to the gun can prevent that. A balanced spinning object inside the gun will have no total momentum at all, and producing electricity won't change the momentum either. You need an outside force on the gun, and there are just three options: * eject something backwards (e.g. some of the gas produced in the explosion) * something that connects the gun to the ground or other objects * body parts While you cannot change the total momentum transfer, you can reduce the peak force at the cost of increased duration. That can be done internal to the gun (e.g. by compressing some of its parts, or moving parts of it backwards for a while) or outside (wheels for cannons, ...). [/QUOTE]
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Very preliminary thoughts on a recoil reducing gun
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