Now I'm seriously confused. There's only one pressure peak, after which pressure drops. Only goes one direction after the peak, which is down. You talk about "the decay in pressure" while also referring to "peak pressure at each location from chamber to muzzle". Those two concepts directly contradict each other. Peak, as an adjective, means highest--and there can be only one highest. Everything else is lower. You also have contradictory statements about pressure measurements. You agree that the gauge only measures pressure where it's placed . . . but then you tell me it measures pressure all the way down the barrel. If it did that, then why did Bell use several strain gauges? And I thought we'd agreed previously that a strain gauge depends on the dimensions of the metal--which obviously change significantly from chamber to muzzle, which would make it impossible for a single gauge placed in the chamber to measure pressure at the muzzle, where the dimension of the metal is very different.
Waters are getting murkier and murkier . . .
