2006-11-06 02:01:07 · 7 answers · asked by leslie ann f 1 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
A bullet of course. A gun uses a small amount of kinetic energy for the trigger hammer to strike the expolsive cap in the shell but thereafter the explosive force is sent into the bullet, with and equal opposite reaction energy dissipated by providing recoil which the gun uses (if automatic) to load the next shell.
I assume the trick in the question is to ignore the equal and opposite reaction rule but not all of the force thus generated is in the form of kinetic energy which relates to bodies in motion.
2006-11-06 02:11:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Trick question Leslie Ann? The answer is... neither one has any kinetic energy. Both possess potential energy. I'll explain:
Kinetic energy translates into acceleration. A bullet has no acceleration until it is fired. A gun has no acceleration until it is thrown.
Potential energy is a different matter. The gun would have more potential energy in its ability to discharge more than just a single bullet. A bullet, once it expends its energy, is immediately depleted and has no potential for expending anymore significant amount of energy.
Therefore the gun possess more potential energy. Am I on the right track, or way off base?
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2006-11-06 06:51:50 · answer #2 · answered by H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bullet. The gun upon the instant it is fired, has potential energy. The bullet upon being moved by the gas created by the gun has kinetic energy.
2006-11-06 04:36:11 · answer #3 · answered by Akela 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I understand your question the bullet probably. KE is mass times velocity squared. The gun has a lot more mass but the bullet has much more velocity. Then the fact the velocity is squared means (seems to me) that the bullet is the choice. Powder has potential energy
a bullet is a peice of lead and copper it has no potential energy other than the fact you can drop it
2006-11-08 19:01:39 · answer #4 · answered by uncle frosty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the bullet has some of the energy but the gun does the work according to the size of the gun and man power it wioll trigger the bullet further than it should
2006-11-06 02:05:58 · answer #5 · answered by classichristian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gun powder and in other words the bullet
2006-11-06 02:08:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
niether the gun helps the bullet it is the gun powder that propells it
2006-11-06 02:04:22 · answer #7 · answered by Fergie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋