Relativistic recoil and the railgun
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1089-7550
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AIP Digital Archive
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Physics
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It is shown that the concept of electromagnetic momentum can be used to calculate the force acting on the projectile in a railgun, thereby refuting some recent papers on the subject.
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Electronic Resource
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