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Does this explain railgun range?

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Hal Morsh
Doomheim
#1 - 2015-12-30 14:00:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Hal Morsh
Now that railguns are becoming an actual thing, we might be able to look at "why" railguns in EVE have a falloff range.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYbOmqPg1I


Here's a bigger one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAs9EHtKfVc

The stuff vaporizes when you fire it.

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Annemariela Antonela
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2015-12-30 16:31:19 UTC
I always thought railguns were supposed to be frictionless systems-- a rod of something dense trapped in a monopolar EM field. In space you could accelerate it to relativistic speeds with zero drag, given enough rail length.

Maybe these guys should try lubing their rod next time.

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Solecist Project
#3 - 2015-12-30 16:33:04 UTC
Annemariela Antonela wrote:
Maybe these guys should try lubing their rod next time.

*snickers xD*

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Max Fubarticus
K Diamond Holding LTD.
Bullets Bombs and Blondes
#4 - 2015-12-30 17:20:06 UTC
Hal Morsh wrote:
Now that railguns are becoming an actual thing, we might be able to look at "why" railguns in EVE have a falloff range.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYbOmqPg1I


Here's a bigger one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAs9EHtKfVc

The stuff vaporizes when you fire it.

"quote" In todays technology, it's the C clamps that will kill you.


Higgs Bosun drag is the culprit

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SurrenderMonkey
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#5 - 2015-12-30 17:47:04 UTC  |  Edited by: SurrenderMonkey
Annemariela Antonela wrote:
I always thought railguns were supposed to be frictionless systems--


A coilgun could be built that way, but not a railgun. In a railgun, by definition the projectile (or some sort of projectile housing/armature/etc.) is in contact with the rails. That is literally what is completing the circuit.

To be fair, many of the named "railguns" are actually named as coilguns, though, soooo... :shrug:

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Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#6 - 2015-12-30 18:20:05 UTC
Never heard of a coilgun but I love electromagnetic toroidal coils. And EMdrives. What if they just stuck an emdrive to a projectile?

Oh god.
Annemariela Antonela
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2015-12-30 18:32:07 UTC
SurrenderMonkey wrote:
Annemariela Antonela wrote:
I always thought railguns were supposed to be frictionless systems--


A coilgun could be built that way, but not a railgun. In a railgun, by definition the projectile (or some sort of projectile housing/armature/etc.) is in contact with the rails. That is literally what is completing the circuit.

To be fair, many of the named "railguns" are actually named as coilguns, though, soooo... :shrug:


I stand corrected. o7

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Rowells
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#8 - 2015-12-30 18:36:37 UTC
Now do lasers.
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#9 - 2015-12-30 20:57:44 UTC
I always figured it was the plasma in the casing starting to disintegrating the casing and leaking out into space.

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Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#10 - 2015-12-30 21:13:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Vimsy Vortis
Max Fubarticus wrote:
Higgs Bosun


It's correctly spelled Higgs Boatswain. It's the particle responsible for handling small boats.
ISD Decoy
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#11 - 2015-12-30 23:49:02 UTC
Moving this to OOPE. Great watch... couldn't believe how the energy destroyed the lines on the first attempt.

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Zirashi
Cyclical Destruction
#12 - 2015-12-31 15:15:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Zirashi
You call that a railgun?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eObepuHvYAw

Now THIS is a railgun!

Rowells wrote:
Now do lasers.

If you meant, explain laser falloff.

Well my best guess is lasers would have to be focused to a fixed point to actually burn a target. In Eve, I'd guess this point is determined by the crystal used. This means that you could have your laser is focused to burn things at 3k and it loses potency gradually as you go away from that. Your falloff is the distance that the laser is still focused enough to cause some sort of burn. The real question would be, why hasn't the eve universe designed a system to focus a laser dynamically rather than using a system as primitive as swapping from a very select few of lenses?

If you were saying "now build a laser"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIxugT-QiEI
Zirashi
Cyclical Destruction
#13 - 2015-12-31 15:26:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Zirashi
Double-post.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#14 - 2015-12-31 18:49:46 UTC
The related coil gun was neat. I see more possibilities with that.

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