Posting #20:- "Where Is The Kinetic Energy of a Bullet Stored?"
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from
mediocre minds." - A. Einstein
When a bullet is fired, an explosive charge imparts kinetic
energy to the bullet. That kinetic energy travels with the bullet and is
transferred to the target when the bullet strikes. The question to be answered
is where that kinetic energy resides while the bullet is in flight. It obviously
travels with the bullet as is shown by the fact that stopping the bullet
anywhere along its flight path will impart that energy to the stopping means.
Where that energy is stored is revealed by the corrected Lorentz Transformations
for Velocity using the more rational F,L,T system of units. To accomplish this
it is first necessary to correct an error made in the derivation of the Lorentz
Transformation for Transverse Force. Apparently, for some hare-brained reason,
this transformation was apparently derived using Maxwell's Equations instead of
making use of the basic Lorentz Transformations and E=M*C^2 alone. The use of
this approach led to the conclusion that the Lorentz Transformation for
Transverse Force was the reciprocal of its correct value. The fact that an error
existed in that derivation was revealed by the classic "Right Angle Lever
Paradox" which those familiar with undergraduate level physics and/or mechanics
should be able to demolish in a few minutes.
Let us consider that an idealized bullet which, when at rest
consists of three ideal "massless" springs at right angles to each other and
aligned with one of the springs parallel to the bullets of the path. (See Figure below). The "rest
mass" of the bullet is then inserted in the springs by compressing them equally.
The energy stored in each of the springs is half of the product of the distance
of the their compression and their stiffness. When kinetic energy is added to
the bullet, the force compressing the parallel spring is increased by the
Lorentz Transformation for Parallel Force, which is unity, while the distance of
compression is reduced by the Lorentz Transformation for Length and energy must
LEAVE the parallel spring. WE can conclude, as a result, that energy must leave
the parallel spring and travel in the space around it (presumably in a disk
oriented perpendularly to the velocity vector).
In the transverse axes, however, a different situation exists.
The distance which these springs are compressed is unchanged by the velocity but
the force required to compress the spring is INCREASED by the Lorentz
Transformation for Transverse Force. As result, the energy of compression stored
in the transverse springs is increased proportionally. The energy of compression
in these springs is increased in direct proportion to the increase of kinetic
energy of the object. It would appear, therefore, that kinetic energy is stored
within the moving object and in a disk like (perpendicular to its velocity
vector) region of space around the object.
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