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Line 432: ==Notes== ==Notes== * {{note|error}} ''[[Objective Raids]]'' mentions a "Poland Model R" Gauss rifle on p. 90. Cross-referencing this with the [[Technical Readout]] entries for the units supposedly equipped with it shows that it is apparently an error, and meant to read Poland Main Model A. * {{note|error}} ''[[Objective Raids]]'' mentions a "Poland Model R" Gauss rifle on p. 90. Cross-referencing this with the [[Technical Readout]] entries for the units supposedly equipped with it shows that it is apparently an error, and meant to read Poland Main Model A. + + * While the Gauss Rifle as described in Battletech is a railgun, Gauss guns in the real world operate using the principles behind a Newton's cradle and permanent magnets. Essentially, the shot fired is the last in a series of ferromagnetic shot resting in the barrel of the weapon, with the second-from-first being a permanent magnet and the first being a ferromagnetic mass that be pried off the magnet by the firing mechanism. When the weapon is fired, the mass is released by the firing mechanism and is accelerated into the magnet thanks to magnetic attraction. The kinetic energy is then transferred from the initial shot to the magnet, then to each shot in sequence, launching the final shot with nearly all the force of the original impact. As the final shot is much further from the magnet than the original mass, it loses less energy to the magnet and is released at a higher speed than the original ferromagnetic mass. The confusion between the railgun and gauss gun is common in science fiction and is not exclusive to Battletech. ==References== ==References==
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* {{note|error}} ''[[Objective Raids]]'' mentions a "Poland Model R" Gauss rifle on p. 90. Cross-referencing this with the [[Technical Readout]] entries for the units supposedly equipped with it shows that it is apparently an error, and meant to read Poland Main Model A. | * {{note|error}} ''[[Objective Raids]]'' mentions a "Poland Model R" Gauss rifle on p. 90. Cross-referencing this with the [[Technical Readout]] entries for the units supposedly equipped with it shows that it is apparently an error, and meant to read Poland Main Model A. | ||
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| + | * While the Gauss Rifle as described in Battletech is a railgun, Gauss guns in the real world operate using the principles behind a Newton's cradle and permanent magnets. Essentially, the shot fired is the last in a series of ferromagnetic shot resting in the barrel of the weapon, with the second-from-first being a permanent magnet and the first being a ferromagnetic mass that be pried off the magnet by the firing mechanism. When the weapon is fired, the mass is released by the firing mechanism and is accelerated into the magnet thanks to magnetic attraction. The kinetic energy is then transferred from the initial shot to the magnet, then to each shot in sequence, launching the final shot with nearly all the force of the original impact. As the final shot is much further from the magnet than the original mass, it loses less energy to the magnet and is released at a higher speed than the original ferromagnetic mass. The confusion between the railgun and gauss gun is common in science fiction and is not exclusive to Battletech. | ||
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