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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: A Question on Ballistics
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 21:14:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 21:14:14 1984
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This is true.  Gravity has only a vertical component that acts downward
equally on the fired bullet and the dropped bullet.  We assume perfectly
horizontal surface and negligible downward air resistance as well as
uniform gavitational field.  Most first-year dynamics texts will have
you prove this or something like this (monkey dropping coconuts and
a hunter shooting them as they fall is the one I had to prove).

Herb...

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