Re: Velocity of a falling bullet

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In sci.electronics.design Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:59:10 -0500, "Paul R. Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>>"Don A. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Hi Doug:
>>>>
>>>> In a vacuum, the bullet will strike your head at the muzzle velocity!
>>>This
>>>> is just as if you had put the gun to the top of your head.
>>>
>>>
>>>Only if that Vacuum were far removed from any gravitational well
>>>in which case it would never stop and come back at cha...
>>>
>>>If fired UP it would at some point STOP and have 0 velocity
>>>at that point, even in a perfect Vacuum , it will reach its terminal
>>>velocity at the point it ...well .. terminates..  and that is when
>>>it strikes the ground.  which is calculatable and magnitudes less
>>>than Muzzle velocity....
>>>
>>>You need a few more days in Physics class and study
>>>old Newtonian Laws of Mass and inertia because if you
>>>were right dropping a hammer on the moon would be a deadly act.
>>>
>>>
>> [snip]
>> 
>> Eh?  Who is it that needs to study Physics ?:-)
>> 
>> A bullet fired vertically in a vacuum has no "windage" and would
>> arrive back at ground level at the muzzle velocity.
>
>Plus or minus whatever Mr Coriolis has to say about it.
>
This won't change the value, only the direction (slightly).

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