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- From: shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu (Scott M Hampton)
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.023033.2558@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- References: <1993Jan28.014844.14393@msc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:30:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.014844.14393@msc.cornell.edu> bickham@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Scott Bickham,C17 Clark Hall,56079,2737038) writes:
- >From article <1993Jan28.004746.17267@netcom.com>, by geoffm@netcom.com (Geoff Miller):
- >> In article <1993Jan26.180958.22771@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu
- >>
- >>>even so, the bullet comes back down at the same speed that it left the
- >>>barrel. it has to come down somewhere.
- >>
- >> Not! When it leaves the barrel, the bullet has the force of the propellant
- >> (gunpower, for those of you in Rio Linda) behind it. Coming back down, on
- >> the other hand, it only has tha acceleration of gravity working on it, less
- >> resistance from the air. In simple terms, on the way up it's being pushed,
- >> but on the way down, it's only falling.
- >>
- >
- >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 (ahich 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. Air-resistance will make it
- >a little less, but not by much compared to the muzzle velocity. Hope you're
- >feeling better tomorrow Geoff, although I imagine that you're busy reading
- >through your AMOK catalog in your spare time.
-
- Look, Scott, Physics 1a just isn't gonna cut it. 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.
- You are wrong, you lose. Prepare for Geoff and I to double squick your vacant
- cranial quarters in a game of Split the Melon-Head.
-
- Geoff, I get the back.....and we will have to synchronize as I doubt there
- is even room for one REAL ManTool(tm)* in that cramped little skull.
-
- *Trademark Geoff Miller, 1992
-
- --
-
- Scott M. Hampton Woulffe shampton@jarthur.claremont.edu
-