• wahming@monyet.cc
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    5 months ago

    Not that surprising when you think about it. Bullets operate on the principle of focusing force into an extremely small area, and armor piecing bullets just take that a step further by not deforming the moment they impact without adding any extra force. A heavy punch with the weight of an entire heavyweight behind it has so much more force than the few grams of mass a bullet has.

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      5 months ago

      Yes.

      But keep in mind when estimating these things generally: energy scales linearly with mass, but quadraticly with velocity