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**Title:** Studying Suppressors with Slow Motion (Smarter Every Day)
**Summary:**
* Intro: Host Destin clarifies that his channel's focus on firearms is for understanding physics (fluid dynamics, ballistics, optics, mechanics, aerodynamics).
* Topic: Analyzing **suppressors** using slow-motion footage and Schlieren photography.
* Key findings:
1. **Unsuppressed vs. Suppressed**: Comparison shows the latter dissipates acoustic energy over 15 milliseconds, unlike the former's instantaneous blast.
2. **Suppressor's Outside Dynamics**: Initial blast bounces inside the suppressor, slowly leaking gases, reducing noise.
3. **Subsonic Ammunition**: Unburnt powder exits the suppressor first, sometimes supersonically, followed by the bullet with delayed normal shockwaves.
* Additional insights: Suppressors heat up quickly, potentially causing malfunctions, and unburnt propellant can exit the muzzle supersonically before the bullet.
**Note:** The summary excludes the sponsored segment (Hello Fresh) and concluding remarks to focus on the main topic.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, without opinions, in short sentences with numbers:
**Firearms and Ballistics**
1. The host studies firearms to explore fluid dynamics, ballistics, optics, mechanics, and aerodynamics.
2. A supersonic bullet creates an angular shot cone, which can be used to determine the Mach number.
3. A bullet traveling in the transonic regime can create supersonic flow around it.
**Shockwaves and Suppressors**
4. The "crack" of a bullet is created by the shockwave as it passes.
5. The "bang" of a gunshot is caused by rapidly expanding gases out of the muzzle.
6. Suppressors dissipate acoustic energy differently than unsuppressed weapons.
7. Suppressed weapons can still produce a shockwave, but it's less intense and dissipates over time (up to 15 milliseconds).
**Suppressor Functionality and Limitations**
8. Suppressors heat up quickly due to captured thermal energy.
9. Firing multiple rounds through a suppressor can cause malfunctions and damage to the weapon.
**Subsonic Ammunition and Observations**
10. Unburnt powder can exit a suppressor before the bullet, sometimes supersonically.
11. Subsonic rounds may not produce normal shockwaves on the sides of the bullet until it's several inches away from the muzzle.
12. Optimal burnout for 300 Blackout cartridges occurs around 9.5 to 10 inches of barrel length.
**Miscellaneous**
13. Schlieren photography is a technique used to visualize fluid dynamics (e.g., shockwaves).
14. Hello Fresh is a meal kit delivery service that sponsored this episode of Smarter Every Day.