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Re: [Phys-l] old stuff--battleship momentum conservation.

At 3:39 PM -0600 2/3/11, Jack Uretsky wrote:
Certainly there is a recoil. The USS Phillipine Sea (a carrrier) had an
early version of a night landing system. The electronics were based on
vacuum tubes. In those days the carriers of our class carried 5" guns for
air defense, so we happily put to sea for gunnery practice. During gnnery
practice the tubes in the night landing system all shatttered. The year
was 1948,
Regards,

Can't avoid a recoil.
The ship feels it as a shake but not a (measurable) translation.
Not even a significant 'heel'.