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- From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:24:37 -0500
- Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
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- bickham@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Scott Bickham,C17 Clark Hall,56079,2737038) writes:
- >Alas, another one of my idols has fallen. As soon as it leaves the barrel,
- >the only external force acting on the bullet is gravity and air resistance.
- >Neglecting the air resistance (which is roughly proportional to, and
- >oppositely directed to the velocity), the speed will be the same when it
- >returns to the same height as the barrel.
-
- There is only one problem with that. You can't neglect the air
- resistance! If you want your fancy physics formulas to work in the real
- world, you must not discard pieces of them. Nay, they must be followed
- to the letter, and if an effect is to be deemed insignificant, its
- magnitude must first be known.
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- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
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