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- From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: More Brat Control
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 14:15:44 -0500
- Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
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- shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu (Scott M Hampton) writes:
- >In article <1k7p8nINN5sg@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin) writes:
- >>shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu (Scott M Hampton) writes:
- >>> The bullet leaves the
- >>>barrel of most firearms at extra-Mach velocities. Thus the crack. When in a
- >>>free fall, however, the speed of sound is the ultimate limit on velocity.
- >>
- >>The word is "terminal velocity", creep. And it has little to do with the
- >>speed of sound.
- >
- >Arrgh. College students with an attitude. Fargh. Note use of word ULTIMATE
- >in above sentence. Given an ogive bullet at sub-mach velocities travelling
- >with the primary axis of the bullet exactly aligned in the direction of
- >flight AND spinning at less than about dia*1000 radian/sec the equation of
- >state term for drag is v^2.37, unless the length to diameter ratio is less
- >than about 4 in which case it's not. But thanks for the compliment! Now go
- >felch your physics TA for fluid flow practice.
-
- Good lord. What a spew of intellectual vomit. And it's completely
- irrelevant. You'll have to do better than picking up a random book on
- ballistics, turning to a random page, and repeating a random paragraph, in
- order for your words to cut any ice in this forum.
-
- The plain fact is that terminal velocity can be greater than Mach 1. I'm
- not going to corroborate this fact, since I prefer just denouncing you.
-
- >>Peeve: physics abuse. The phenomenon where a person who knows physics
- >>superficially tries to use it to intimidate innocent victims.
- >
- >There are *NO* innocent victims here. There are only predators and prey.
-
- Some of us have other means of procuring our entertainment than using our
- knowledge to intimidate those who do not share it.
-
-
- --
- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
- "Riot, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent
- bystanders." -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
-