On Friday, February 21, 2014 6:22:15 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:40:05 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet

wrote:



On 2/20/2014 2:23 PM, wrote:

*Should be "of equal mass and close mass distribution"



And please don't swap the terms. Recoil? Leon likes the term bounce back



Bounce back = Energy that is not entirely absorbed by the strike and

which is deflected.



Right. Energy that isn't absorbed is useless, however that which isn't

moving the struck object is just being absorbed uselessly as heat

anyway. I don't see that the lack of "bounce" necessarily makes the

hammer more "efficient".


It doesn't.



It just means it's absorbing energy, rather
than the user's arm.









Recoil is a good term. Not all of the energy spent inside a bullet is

pushing the bullet down the barrel, much is absorbed by the person

shooting the gun.



Newton's third law kinda makes this a given.