I’m reading an explanation of why composite bows were so much more powerful than the wooden bows before them because the animal horn and sinew “stored far more energy.”
I think this is that lesson in physics that I never fully understood and only passed because I memorized basic terms.
In: Physics
It basically comes down to stress. On a longbow the material isn’t under as much stress as on a recurve bow when it is strung. The extra curve increases the tension on the bowstring.
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