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Re: MythBusters: Bringing on the physics bullet drop

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> MythBusters: Bringing on the physics bullet drop
>> http://www.wired.com/2009/10/mythbusters-bringing-on-the-physics-bullet-drop/
> 
> 
>> If you didn?t catch the latest MythBusters (yeah! new episodes), they
>> did something straight from the physics textbooks. Just about every
>> text has this example of shooting a bullet horizontally and dropping
>> a bullet from the same height. The idea is that they should hit the
>> ground at the same time. No one but the MythBusters could actually
>> show this demo with a real gun.
>>
>> The Physics
>>
>> I am going to do some calculations, but I want to first write about
>> the physics that accompanies this idea (and you can actually do it
>> your self without the gun). What physics principle does this demo
>> show? Well, it shows two things. First, it shows that the horizontal
>> and vertical motion in projectile motion are independent. That is,
>> what happens in the y-direction, stays in the y-direction. Really,
>> you can treat projectile motion as two separate problems that just
>> happen to take the same amount of time. The second thing it shows is
>> that the velocity in one direction does not effect the velocity in
>> the other direction (which really is the same as the first thing).
>> Let me draw two diagrams, one for a dropped ball and one for ball
>> shot horizontally.
 
Except real bullets in air have some lift depending on the bullet shape,
cut and paste spamming shit head.

 

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Jim Pennino

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MythBusters: Bringing on the physics bullet drop Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 20:54 -0600
  Re: MythBusters: Bringing on the physics bullet drop jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-10 03:09 +0000
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