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Paintball guns are usually limited to 300 feet per second in competition- that's 91 meters per second, which is about what you are measuring. A paintball weigh
by danielvf 11y ago
Paintball guns are usually limited to 300 feet per second in competition- that's 91 meters per second, which is about what you are measuring.
A paintball weight 3grams, whereas the rail gun projectile is 11 grams. Paintball guns can shoot faster than is competition legal, and the much longer barrel could allow it to add more energy than it could with a heavy projectile in an equivalent paintball gun.
- tomcam 11y agoUm, no. A paintball weighs about 3 grams [1]. [1] http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a473706.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a473706.pdf
- danielvf 11y agoThanks! Corrected. At least I wrote the wrong measure on both, so the ratio was still right.
- simonh 11y agoThey say that the paintball gun doesn't shoot the projectile fast enough for it to overcome friction from the rails, so without the magnetic field it wouldn't exit the gun at all, which seems plausible. So assuming they are trustworthy you can completely discount the energy provided by the painball gun when considering the energy given to the projectile.