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Article #290Re: net.rec.guns: Bullet weight and point of impact
From: Jordan K. Hubbard
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1987 20:05
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1987 20:05
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Article: 1:4 References: <1957@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> I believe it was Newton who proved that two metal balls of differing weights, dropped from the same height at the same time shall reach the ground at the same time (discounting the negligible effects of friction through the air). Similarly, if one ball was dropped, and at the same instant, another ball was thrust horizontally from the same height, they would both reach the ground at the same time (assuming a relatively flat earth). Therefore, if you bore sighted a target, that would be suspended with some mechanism that would release the target the instant you pulled the trigger, you would always hit the target (assuming negligible effects of air friction as the target dropped).
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!jkh From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns Subject: Re: net.rec.guns: Bullet weight and point of impact Message-ID: <2116@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 15:05:53 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2116 Posted: Wed Jan 7 15:05:53 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 19:14:20 EST Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 13 Approved: jkh@ucbjade Author: decvax!decwrl!prls!philabs!pwa-b!anneser@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Dean Anneser)