This does not work for a couple of reasons. One is simply that as the bullet rises above the surface of the earth, the horizontal speed it would need to keep up with the surface must increase and there is no force along that direction, so the bullet is out of luck.
As a result of all this, the bullet will land slightly to the west of where it was fired. As you know, I minored in physics. The explanation from Joe confirms that I made the right decision not to try to major in physics. Could someone clarify?
Which would be the same speed it left the barrel because the effects of gravity would be symmetrical. Think about it this way: a bullet leaves the barrel of a gun at ft. When it is shot straight up if we had no air resistance the bullet would slow based on the force of gravity at 32 ft.
Now, the bullet will fall back down, again without air resistance, accelerating at 32 ft. Thus, it would return to its starting point at the same speed that it left the barrel of the gun. The earth spins at around 25, mph….. The barrel of the gun is designed to spiral the bullet, giving it an aerodynamic advantage over the one falling….
What happens to the rotatory motion of the bullet due to the Groves when coming down from a vertically upward shot? Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.
Back to top. Skip to content What happens to a bullet shot straight up in the air? The details, however, are interesting: A bullet leaves the barrel of a gun at 2, — 3, feet per second.
A few questions this may raise and some answers: Can being hit with a bullet traveling feet to second kill or injure you? A bullet traveling at that speed might penetrate the skin depending on where it hits you. There are cases of people dying after being struck by falling bullets and other cases where there was only slight injury.
But, most bullets shot up in the air are not shot exactly 90 degrees vertical and adding horizontal component to the firing of the bullet will increase the terminal velocity speed as a bullet shot at an acute angle maintains a ballistic trajectory and is not likely to engage in a tumbling motion. So, actual cases of injury or death might only be reflective of bullets fired at an angle other than 90 degrees to horizontal. The vodka still gave no results. Both a control and vodka-soaked bandage were quickly removed from hair-covered legs and, while not painless, the vodka-soaked bandage came off less painfully and removed less hair than the control.
Through a double-blind taste test, the cheap vodka seemed to taste better with every subsequent filtration, although the top-shelf vodka beat them all.
However, a chemical analysis showed no actual difference between the filtered and unfiltered cheap vodka. Aside from the perplexing question of why such a reckless, potentially lethal practice remains so popular, you may also be wondering, what actually happens to a bullet that's fired straight up into the sky?
How high does it go? What stops it and sends it falling back to Earth? And when it descends, when and where does it land? Those aren't necessarily simple questions to answer. Ballistics researchers have spent a lot of time studying the performance of bullets fired horizontally, because that's useful information for improving the accuracy and range of shooters.
But when it comes to firing straight up in the air, which isn't something that soldiers, police officers, hunters or target shooters normally would do, there's not nearly as much data. Army Maj. Julian Hatcher, who apparently was curious and had some time on his hands, did experiments in Florida in which he fired various weapons — ranging from rifles to machine guns — up into the air, and tried to measure how long it took for the bullets to come down, as well as where they landed.
As he noted in his volume "Hatcher's Notebook," he calculated that a standard. But ballistics researcher James Walker, who holds a doctorate in mathematics and is department director of engineering dynamics at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, says that the altitude attained by a bullet fired straight up would depend upon the type of weapon and projectile, just as it does when fired horizontally.
A handgun, which has a shorter barrel than a rifle and fires ammunition with a smaller cartridge that doesn't contain as much powder, isn't going to send a bullet soaring as high as a rifle will. Different types of rifles and ammunition vary as well.
Rifles like the. When fired horizontally, bullets tend to slow down rapidly due to air drag, so that a rifle bullet may be down to half of its initial speed by the time it gets to meters 1, For altitude estimates, Walker pointed to this chart on the website of Close Focus Research , a ballistics testing company, which shows that a.
But no matter how high a bullet goes in the air, however, eventually it will decelerate until its velocity reaches zero, at which point it will begin to fall back to Earth, as detailed in this article on falling bullet injuries in the Journal of Neuroscience Rural Practice.
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