mikemyers
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......There is nothing theoretical about the principle of conservation of momentum and all of the forces acting on the slide and bullet are taken into account by conservation of momentum......
I'm still struggling to understand all the bits and pieces, and I fully accept the "conservation of momentum", but if all that momentum was going into the slide, somebody couldn't resist all that energy just by wrapping their fingers around the slide. ...if I understand what all of you are saying, that "momentum" is going into the shooter's hands. Hold the slide as shown in that video, and the slide doesn't move at all.
It looks more and more like just enough energy is going into the slide, to allow it to eject the spent case, and cock the hammer for the next shot, and even that energy is going into the shooter's hands.
A question for you guys - if you suspended the gun from the ceiling with a string, and had something attached to the gun, that pulled the trigger to fire the gun, would the slide move at all, and if so, how much? I think the bullet would go flying out the front, the gun would swing backwards to the rear, and the slide would only move slightly, resisting the mass of the gun having to accelerate towards the rear.
...........then again, it's 2:30am, and maybe this will look different to me in the morning!
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