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Ishidan01 t1_ja1or2o wrote

Reply to comment by dipper1985 in Explosions in space movies? by DemonOfTheAstroWaste

Bug soft, so it splats. A pebble at 90 mph WILL crack your windshield, or dent your fender.

Force equals mass times velocity SQUARED: velocity means more to force than mass, so if you have a very high velocity, a very small mass carries a lot of force.

Word correction: should have said energy, not force.

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dipper1985 t1_ja1pzea wrote

>Force equals mass times velocity SQUARED: velocity means more to force than mass, so if you have a very high velocity, a very small mass carries a lot of force.

This is kind of the answer I wanted, thank you.

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rockmodenick t1_ja24sg2 wrote

So much of modern ballistics is based on this model it's shocking it isn't more widely known.

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