Originally Posted By: jwp475
[quote=wizzard]

The fallacy that FPE is "transferred" is simply not correct and not possible. A bullet strike is an inelastic collision and as such most of the energy is transformed into other forms of energy Mostly Thermal energy.



Well, this explanation is not quite complete.

In it's being transformed into thermal energy, it is transformed into internal thermal energy that causes deformation of the body tissue and radiates outward from the collision point when involving mediums such as flesh.

SO, for all practical purposes, bullets do transfer energy.....it is just in unmeasurable and diverse forms.