” If you dropped a bullet from your hand at the same time you fired the gun (if the gun was level) they would both hit the ground at the same time”
Not a mechanical engineer or a physicist, but your statement would only be true in controlled conditions.
Depending on the round, for example, they can tend to gain some altitude as they fly, and as the velocity slows they drop. The air has a lot of effect.
Now if you did it in a vacuum, your assertion would be more accurate.
Not a mechanical engineer or a physicist, but your statement would only be true in controlled conditions.
Depending on the round, for example, they can tend to gain some altitude as they fly, and as the velocity slows they drop. The air has a lot of effect.
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Actually the air has little or no effect except to slow down the round or blow it off target. Because barrels are riffled the bullet spins. Any aerodynamic advantage from the shape of the round will be averaged out to zero. There are situations where the bullet could be tilted and “ride” the air up but that would be very rare indeed, or, come from elevating the barrel in the first place. I am only talking about a level barrel.
The purpose of aiming high on a distant target is not overcome the air resistance but it is to overcome gravity.
I realize this all sounds counter-intuitive but it is true.
Looke ‘ere mates
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alfa6 ;-}