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From: stevem@katmandu.Solbourne.COM (Stephen Matson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Small caliber velocity
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Date: 11 Jan 90 04:59:25 GMT
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From: stevem@katmandu.Solbourne.COM (Stephen Matson)
In article <12963@cbnews.ATT.COM> cash@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Cash) writes:
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:It goes without saying that the last is true.  However, (as a purely
:theoretical consideration) it seems doubtful to me that someone could be
:killed by a pistol or rifle bullet fired at a vertical or near vertical
:angle.  The bullet would rise until all of its momentum had been expended,
:and then would begin to fall.  At this point, it would behave like any
:falling object (just as though the bullet had been dropped from an airplane
:overhead).  As I recall, air resistance imposes a limit on the speed to
:which any falling body can accelerate, however I don't remember what that
:speed is.  I have a hunch that it's below the threshold of doing serious
:damage.  Anybody out there with a more recent physics course who can help
:me out?

  The maximum speed that an object falling unaided will attain is 233 Mph I believe.
  Fast enough to hurt.



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