Post by karl on Aug 23, 2016 3:05:08 GMT
Just for grins I tried making a railgun with the fastest muzzle velocity. This is the brute force approach but 14.5 km/s isn't too bad. I could remove the gimbal but I actually mounted this on a craft and it was as stupid and impractical as you would expect. I originally envisioned it as a keel gun, but it ended up more as a proboscis.
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To make it fun let's see who can fire the most kinetic energy in one second. KE = 1/2mv^2 (Units are joules, kg, and m/s)
Showing my work because math was never my strong suit so I'm presumably messing this up somehow.
KE = 1/2 * .150kg * 14,500m/s^2
KE = 1/2 * .150kg * 210250000m/s
KE = .075kg * 210,250,000m/s
KE = 15,768,750 J
I'm not sure if the rate of fire is the sum of the reload time and the cooldown time or just the higher value. I'll assume higher value. Because this is shots fired in one second we'll round down.
ROF = 1s/.118s
ROF = 8
15,768,750J * 8 = 126,150,000 J/s
There are probably better materials out there to use and I have a feature request brewing about this once I make a mock up of a UI. I haven't even begun to figure out the coilgun so there could be an easy win there.
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To make it fun let's see who can fire the most kinetic energy in one second. KE = 1/2mv^2 (Units are joules, kg, and m/s)
Showing my work because math was never my strong suit so I'm presumably messing this up somehow.
KE = 1/2 * .150kg * 14,500m/s^2
KE = 1/2 * .150kg * 210250000m/s
KE = .075kg * 210,250,000m/s
KE = 15,768,750 J
I'm not sure if the rate of fire is the sum of the reload time and the cooldown time or just the higher value. I'll assume higher value. Because this is shots fired in one second we'll round down.
ROF = 1s/.118s
ROF = 8
15,768,750J * 8 = 126,150,000 J/s
There are probably better materials out there to use and I have a feature request brewing about this once I make a mock up of a UI. I haven't even begun to figure out the coilgun so there could be an easy win there.
