Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Pennino Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Arindam Banerjee's peer-reviewed 2013 paper Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 07:03:57 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <829d9004f20fdfa2f6d626a89ff1cfec@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:16:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2c946b056f8276f31cc75b5ba9aa8fe8"; logging-data="494964"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lgGSX5c+/EY/uq7Ypkgsh" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20220130 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.0-126-lowlatency (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z0R2qugvhwMC9GNKtUx1Pe+8uOI= Bytes: 1846 bertietaylor wrote: > Woof-woof, Arindam allowed me to post the background info. about rail > guns in his 2013 seminal paper on the rail gun. > > > > Arindam Banerjee and Dr. P J Radcliffe > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering > Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology > Melbourne, Australia > > > > > Abstract—Recent experimental work on model rail guns shows very little > recoil upon the rails for the static case, where the armature or > projectile does not move. Of course there is no recoil in this case because recoil requires *MOTION* as in Newton's laws of *MOTION*, crackpot. It is clear you don't have a clue what Newton's laws mean, crackpot.