Artguy

Wow, that's totally amazing! Apparently F=MxA doesn't apply when we're talking about the wonders of titainum. I can imagine that a guy who knows how to swing a hammer doesn't need 20+oz. to pound nails with. I'd even be willing to bet that with a longer handle and 10oz. less, one might be able to get the head of the hammer going even faster than one that weighs more and thus be able to hit the nail just as hard or maybe even harder. I'll bet the size of the face and head of the hammer makes a difference too, a 14oz. steel head would be much smaller so that it would make it harder to hit the nail, a titainum head would be big enough that it's just as easy to hit the nail. The thing that bothers me is the claim that "A titanium hammer transfers 97% of your energy from swinging the hammer to the nail head, while a steel hammer transfers only 70% of your energy to the nail" -can somebody explain the Physics of how that can possibly be true? It all sounds bogus to me.