Soldarius
Caldari
Northstar Cabal
Important Internet Spaceship League
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Posted - 2011.06.22 04:57:00 -
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First, nice art work, CCP. Missiles next please!
Second,
 Originally by: Cade Windstalker
By the way, you were right to leave recoil on lasers, any laser applying enough energy to a target to do significant damage would have as much or more recoil than the equivalent projectile weapon. Good old e=mc^2 states that light leaving an object imparts a force relative to the amount of energy the light contains.
Translation for anyone who doesn't speak physics: Laser guns pack one heck of a kick, Einstein said so.
Before anyone jumps on it, I said "as much or more" because it depends on the attenuation rate of the beam vs the energy lost by the projectile over its travel distance. The reason you never hear about lasers having recoil is because the only ones big enough to have recoil are also, right now, so big they have to have their own building.
Quoting someone talking about Einsteinian physics in a game with jump drives, warp drives, and jump gates.
While I don't dispute the amount of energy involved, or the fact that there is recoil for both a laser and a projectile, I must point that there is a huge difference between total energy and the amount of recoil experienced upon firing lasers and projectiles.
Linkage to Cornell physics blog.
Read down a couple comments. The writer continues on to figure out how far a weapon with mass of 5kg would recoil over the 30ns impulse time when subjected to the 15 Newtons of momentum. The result is 1.35 x 10^-15 meters, or roughly 1 atomic diameter.
While not zero, the recoil would be unnoticeable.
Your second error is in regards to the "attenuation rate of the beam vs the energy lost by the projectile over its travel distance."
What does this have to do with the energy imparted upon firing? This is energy lost during travel to its destination, and will only affect its available energy upon impact. Irrelevant.
tl;dr, A laser of equivalent energy has an extremely short impulse duration, which is critical to determining how far a gun of given mass recoils. So no noticeable recoil.
Originally by: Krutoj
You dont have a supercapital? buy PLEX trade it for ISK, buy supers. Just like any other mmo you can use your RL to pimp your character out (or tank for that matter).
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