Internal Ballistics Manual

Classical Internal Ballistics - for the digital age

Book Chapters
Geoffrey Kolbe is writing a book on internal ballistics which he hopes will be published in late 2023. (Well, it was not quite done at the end of 2023, but hopefully the end of 2024 will be good.) Below is a list of the proposed book chapters, with links to those chapters that are 'finished', pending review. Note that these are draft chapters, so this is not intended to be the final version. The usual copyright laws apply. Comments are welcome. Please use the feedback link at the bottom of the page.

Chapter One - Book Review
Chapter Two - Units and Dimensions
Chapter Three - The Thermodynamics of Guns
Chapter Four - How Propellants Burn
Chapter Five - Shot Start Pressure
Chapter Six - Barrel Friction
Chapter Seven - Heat Loss
Chapter Eight - Pressure Gradients
Chapter Nine - Analytic Systems
Chapter Ten - Numerical Systems
Chapter Eleven - Experimental Methods
Appendix One - Numerical Methods
Appendix Two - Vivacities for some Commercial Small-Arms Powders

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