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Originally Posted by Rurik
Hey why don't you just make your sig:
"236/420. Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub!"
And save us all some math?
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Actually, his statement would be 116+120/420 = 116.286 since you resolve 120/420 before doing addition. How's that for pedantic!
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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
And it is the same math of speed or mace. It has to do with ovecoming the internia. You can be going at thousands of m/s and still be deflected by a 10m/s force action on you. It's just that by the time it defects you any meaningful distance you will be far away.
Where's RMS when I need a Physics teacher?
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Down sick! I came home after my last lecture today and spent the rest of the day in bad fighting off a fever. I'm feeling better tonight.
mass * velocity = momentum
mass * velocity^2 / 2 = kinetic energy
power = dW/dt where W is the work done over some small time dt, which resolves to P = force * velocity for a constant force. (dW/dt is the derivative, for those who don't recognize the notation.)
In all honesty, I don't think we can really know for certain which is the most important in a real world sense of deflecting or doing damage. In the end, making up something that seems basically right is as close as we're going to get. I'd also note here that for melee weapons and even low velocity projectiles (arrows, javelins, and even early large caliber firearms), velocity is low enough that the difference in momentum and kinetic energy is small enough not to bother getting caught up on. With high velocity firearms, no doubt the difference is large, but for a sword the difference is negligible IMO.
I personally, like the current RQ-style parry. It allows the weapon/shield to deflect a large amount of damage, but it's limited. I love the idea that you can successfully get a weapon in the way and it still isn't sufficient to stop all the damage and that models reality good enough for me.
If I'm not making sense, forgive me. I'm feeling much better, but am still definitely well under the weather.