Re: lasgun Recoil
 

True, this also means that to be propelled it uses kinetic energy which cause the recoil.
We have already said that light, heat and sound dont weigh anything, so the kinetic energy is obviously the answer to all this.
Problem solved

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yes but light does not use kinetic energy to travel, it uses light energy and emits heat energy (A* physics GCSE 4me)

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energy can create forces but not a lasgun,lasguns are little more than over heated flash lights, so i doubt it makes recoil

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no sense there. as you can see from a lasguns damage it is powerful. and there s always the possibility the gun has a firing mechanism to give the light just a teensy bit more speed.

and i know there shouldnt be a recoil really. if there wasnt however the guardsmen would look crap as they stood there static and firing. the eldar look bad enough with no recoil. but imagine 30+ gardsmen sanding perfectly still firing there lasguns

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ok a Las weapon uses Laser Energy and to fire, it needs to charge the shot so the release of that energy will cause recoil. Same pirnciple as a Lascannon but smaller and not as powerful

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yes but it releases light and light has no actual weight and cannot cause kinetic energy to effect he lasgun

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I think I may have answer... The Lasgun fires a concentrated beam of light, and light carries energy. Two well known facts established in this dicussion. But Light energy transfers to heat when it comes in contact with ANY matter. Gas that is heated in any way expands (this includes air).

The Air in the lasgun BEFORE it is fired is at atmospheric temperature, then the lasgun is fired rapidly heating the air suddenly causing a slight explosion in the barrel (the gun does not blow up coz it is built with this sort of thing in mind). This 'explosion' causes the recoil in the gun, because air has mass and can exert force on an object. The reason the force (recoil) goes directly backwards is that the air in the gun, when expanding has no where else to go but out the barrel, so the reactionary force simulates recoil.

Hope that makes sense :D :D :D

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Oh yeah.... and the plasma pistol with no recoil thing is a glitch, coz the librarian is the only hero that has no recoil with it

Thats all from me :)

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you say this but in that case why is there no recoil from laser pointers?

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Thats coz a beam from laser pointer doesn't release enough energy to kill somebody, like a lasgun is supposed to! So it could not raise the temperature of air around it to a level noticable by a human holding it and therefore would not produce a significant degree of air expansion and recoil force.

But if laser pointers could that would be cooooool lol :D