i have come up with this analogy to help clarify how powder burn rate and projectile weight interact.
picture a tee, baseball, and bat. the baseball is our low weight projectile, and the bat is our fast burning powder. the fast burning powder interacts well with the low weight projectile, as a quick smack is all it takes to send it flying. now replace the low weight projectile with a high weight projectile, in our example a bowling ball. now go ahead a give that sucker a smack. as we can see (by the broken bat) the fast burning powder does not interact well with the high weight projectile. in the case of the high weight projectile we need to accelerate it at a slower rate do to its greater momentum. the way i picture this is a shotputter. to shotput you have to get a good wind-up in order to launch the projectile with any effective velocity.
am i on the right track with this?
picture a tee, baseball, and bat. the baseball is our low weight projectile, and the bat is our fast burning powder. the fast burning powder interacts well with the low weight projectile, as a quick smack is all it takes to send it flying. now replace the low weight projectile with a high weight projectile, in our example a bowling ball. now go ahead a give that sucker a smack. as we can see (by the broken bat) the fast burning powder does not interact well with the high weight projectile. in the case of the high weight projectile we need to accelerate it at a slower rate do to its greater momentum. the way i picture this is a shotputter. to shotput you have to get a good wind-up in order to launch the projectile with any effective velocity.
am i on the right track with this?