Muzzle velocity design. In a side by side comparison with the .50 BMG, the titanium round "of any caliber" released almost 28 times the energy of the .50 BMG, with only a 27% mean loss in momentum. Energy, in most cases, is what is lethal to the target, not momentum. In conventional guns, muzzle velocity is determined by the quantity of the propellant (burn speed, expansion), the mass of the projectile, and the length of the barrel. A slower-burning propellant needs a longer barrel to burn completely, but can, on the other hand, use a heavier projectile. A faster-burning propellant may accelerate
Angular velocity two-dimensional case above, one may define the angular velocity vector as: where "θ" is the angle between r and v. In terms of the cross product, this is: From this, one can recover the tangential velocity as: If a point rotates with angular velocity formula_28 in a coordinate frame formula_29 which itself rotates with an angular velocity formula_30 with respect to an external frame formula_31, we can define formula_32 to be the composite angular velocity vector of the point with respect to formula_31. This operation coincides with usual addition of vectors, and it gives angular velocity the algebraic structure of