View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 10-July-2008, 03:01 PM
antoniseb's Avatar
antoniseb antoniseb is online now
Administrator
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Berlin MA
Posts: 16,025
Default

The volume of material vaporized (and the energy required to vaporize it) goes up as the cube of the radius of the crater...

However, with craters, there will be other lower-order effects having to do with the materials and environments, such as how well the atmosphere contains the blast. As the size of the blast increases, it is easier to pop the atmosphere above the blast, and so some energy is lost.
__________________
Forming opinions as we speak
Reply With Quote