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what are the basic principals of the firing of gun and rocket propulsion?

The principle of rocket propulsion depends on the following two laws: -

(i) Newton 's third law of motion

(ii) Law of conservation of momentum

The basic idea behind Maxim's gun, as well as the hundreds of machine gun designs that followed, was to use the power of the cartridge explosion to reload and re-cock the gun after each shot.


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