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icegreentea
on Feb 22, 2015
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How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45
Parent was invoking conservation of linear momentum not an energy balance. There's no requirement that both the bullet and slide have the same kinetic energy, only that the sum of energy between the two bodies remains constant.
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