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Particle Beam Weapons: More Than Just Flashlights?
blondandy:
PV=nRT
only for ideal gases. the larger volume your molecules are, the dodgier it becomes.
is it me, or is this topic riding hard on a steed named tangent?
DanielOR:
--- Quote from: blondandy on June 06, 2008, 10:54:44 pm ---PV=nRT
only for ideal gases. the larger volume your molecules are, the dodgier it becomes.
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Is it larger or "more willing to interact with each other"? Ideal gas approximation is more about molecules behaving like steel balls. You are correct eithe way - plasma particles would be highly charged. Not sure how much the ideal gas law would be modified. Compared to the minor issue of plasma guns and what not, maybe substituting ideal gas for plasma is excusable? :) At least we are not approximating an Ortnoc by a sphere...
--- Quote from: blondandy on June 06, 2008, 10:54:44 pm ---is it me, or is this topic riding hard on a steed named tangent?
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Yeeee-haw!
SirMoric:
With regards to todays normal projectile, the gunpowder nowadays is actually slow-burning.... which means that instead of an near-"explosion" in the chamber the pressure behind the bullet steadily increases and thereby increasing speed of the bullet even more. This also has the effect that you can save weight, since you don't have to contain a massive explosion.
This was what made the German 88 deadly during the war at least.
Just a thought.
DanielOR:
SirMoric,
thanks for the heads-up. means that what we plan to do with plasma is alreay being done today with slow burning powder. Cool.
Darkpriest667:
Doctor im glad that someone else knows about ETC besides me.
yes one of the major problems is worrying about the plasma ejection... also take into account its extremely bright (the sun) less than 3 feet from your face.. the kind of sungoggles you would need for this weapon would make night fighting an impossibility.
Also DoctorJ i heard another serious hurdle they have had to deal with is that the chemical reaction causes some sort of radiation or the plasma does im sorry im not a scientist but I overhear things :-p. so basically if you walked where you fired and stood there for any length of time there was a possibility of radiation exposure.
is this incorrect or no?
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