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Wound ballistics is an inter-disciplinary science, involving a wide range of specialists – doctors, physicists, lawyers, weapons experts, etc. There is therefore a need for a concise introduction to the basic physics involved. Readers with a good knowledge of physics may wish to skip Section 2.1.
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Kneubuehl, B.P. (2022). Basics. In: Kneubuehl, B.P. (eds) Wound Ballistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64855-1_2
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