To: John Jorsett
Technically, the hitting power of a bullet is determined by the bullet weight and velocity, and is measured in joules. Ehhh..... what happened to Foot-Pounds?
To: bikepacker67
Foot pounds is jost another way of saying how much energy the bullet carries. Actually joules is fairly close even if the numbers don't mean the same.
In other words my Lapua cartridges are rated at something like 2800 joules which would be roughly 2400 foot pounds.
17 posted on
02/01/2006 3:59:37 PM PST by
yarddog
To: bikepacker67
Technically, the hitting power of a bullet is determined by the bullet weight and velocity, and is measured in joules. Ehhh..... what happened to Foot-Pounds?
New tactic - you want to stop the enemy fast - hit him in the joules.
24 posted on
02/01/2006 4:05:25 PM PST by
Fido969
("Everybody out of the pool!")
To: bikepacker67
It's that darn metric system again.
Joule (energy or work) = applied force of one Newton moving one meter
Newtons (force) = force required to accelerate 1 kilogram one meter
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As far as I'm concerned when you need to know what it takes to put a six foot man six feet under, foot-pounds just seems to make a lot more sense.
31 posted on
02/01/2006 4:17:18 PM PST by
Ragnorak
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