What is the difference between a railgun and a coilgun? Which

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2016-03-29 02:56:43 Post No. 7964408
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Anonymous 2016-03-29 02:56:43 Post No. 7964408 [Report]

What is the difference between a railgun and a coilgun? Which one is more efficient?

Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:05:22 Post No.7964429
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Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:05:22 Post No.7964429 [Report]

Also, if you had a cylinder filled with a gas like hydrogen, and you had a piston at one end with an explosive on the other side, and the velocity of the explosive's detonation was higher than the gas's speed of sound, what would happen?

Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:12:45 Post No.7964444
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Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:16:11 Post No.7964449
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Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:16:11 Post No.7964449 [Report]

>>7964408
>What is the difference between a railgun and a coilgun?

Wikipedia it. One uses rails, the other one or many coils.

>and the velocity of the explosive's detonation was higher than the gas's speed of sound, what would happen?
Piston travels down tube and compresses gas, you just described a Light-Gas gun which you can also wikipedia for details.

Why ask retard central something when you can wikipedia it instead?

Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:17:52 Post No.7964453
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>>7964429
>faster than the gas's speed of sound

Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:28:52 Post No.7964479
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Anonymous 2016-03-29 03:28:52 Post No.7964479 [Report]

>>7964449
I had already read those articles.
I was confused about the light gas gun; I get now that the explosion has to be supersonic.
But with railgun/coilgun, which one is (can be) more efficient?

What is the difference between a railgun and a coilgun? Which

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