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From: cbd@iham1.UUCP (Carl Deitrick)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: A Question on Ballistics
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 17:17:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 17:17:50 1984
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The other night a friend and I were talking about his recent hunting trip
when the subject of ballistics ( I use the term loosely ) came up.  That
discussion reminded me of an article I saw someplace that claimed ( in
summary) that the forward motion of a body did not change the effect of
gravity on that body.  The example cited in that article was a bullet
fired from a gun held level and not pointed at any obstacle that would
stop the bullet.  The article claimed that the fired bullet would hit the
ground as quickly as a bullet dropped manually from the height of the gun
muzzle.  Is this true?  Did I maybe suffer from a momentary brain flutter
and misinterpret the article?  If I didn't, is the author full of bat guano?
Please reply by mail. Thanks.
					Carl Deitrick
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