Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (07 Jul 2015 23:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Ethan McKinney (07 Jul 2015 23:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (08 Jul 2015 00:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (08 Jul 2015 00:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Ethan McKinney (08 Jul 2015 04:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (08 Jul 2015 10:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Grimmund (08 Jul 2015 11:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (09 Jul 2015 08:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kelly St. Clair (09 Jul 2015 10:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 14:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (09 Jul 2015 07:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (10 Jul 2015 00:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (10 Jul 2015 11:43 UTC)
RE: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Anthony Jackson (10 Jul 2015 17:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 W. Hopper (10 Jul 2015 17:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (11 Jul 2015 13:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kelly St. Clair (11 Jul 2015 17:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (11 Jul 2015 18:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (12 Jul 2015 07:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (24 Jul 2015 03:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 01:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Craig Berry (08 Jul 2015 02:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 02:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 02:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Craig Berry (08 Jul 2015 03:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 02:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 shadow@xxxxxx (08 Jul 2015 07:41 UTC)

Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger 08 Jul 2015 02:16 UTC

On 7/7/2015 10:08 PM, Craig Berry wrote:
> What really matters here, in the domain of ultra-high velocity
> railguns, is mass delivered to the target. For comparable mass and
> density, it really doesn't much matter whether the mass arrives as a
> solid or a plasma. It will be the latter a microsecond after impact
> anyway.

So it would be theoretically possible for the projectile mass to be
converted to plasma during the "firing" process and then travel at
100km/s or even 1000km/s?

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