Does a counterweight eliminate recoil/counter-torque?
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Of course not.
The projectile has been given some momentum, so the launcher must recoil by conservation of momentum. You can't dodge that.
In this case the problem with the proposed mechanism is that after the (initially balanced) arm releases the payload it is no longer balanced and you have this counter weight moving backwards to deal with.
Which doesn't mean that there might not be an engineering reason for such an arrangement if the recoil could be dealt with on a longer time basis (same impulse, less force). ☺
The projectile has been given some momentum, so the launcher must recoil by conservation of momentum. You can't dodge that.
In this case the problem with the proposed mechanism is that after the (initially balanced) arm releases the payload it is no longer balanced and you have this counter weight moving backwards to deal with.
Which doesn't mean that there might not be an engineering reason for such an arrangement if the recoil could be dealt with on a longer time basis (same impulse, less force). ☺
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Answer:
of course not
Explanation:
will have given some Momentum to draw
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