I think I might understand N3 and the bullet


Hmmm. I think just had an insight!!!

As a (fast moving) gas molecule strikes the bullet, there is an N3
reaction. Bullet goes one way, gas molecule goes the other.
Billions of such continuous tiny reactions:

First overcome it's static inertia, then accelerate it down the
barrel, imparting more and more kinetic inertia as it zooms down the
barrel.

As it zooms thru the fluid medium (air, usually), it strikes against
other molecules. These opposing reactions are what is, in
aggregate, known as friction.

Am I still totally off-base?

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